Memoir of the Life of Richard Henry Lee, and His Correspondence With the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe, Vol. 2 of 2

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Excerpt from Memoir of the Life of Richard Henry Lee, and His Correspondence With the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe, Vol. 2 of 2: Illustrative of Their Characters, and of the Events of the American RevolutionI will prevail with the committee for' foreign applications to furnish you' with the most explicit views of Congress, in every appointment, as well as with the recommendations under which each appointment was, and is' made. We have written both to France and to Martinique to stop the further ¿ow of these gentlemen here, and afterthe letters arrive, I suppose we shall have no more. Many of the last class, we, I believe, menof real merit, and if they will learn to express themselves tolerably in English, maybe of service to the army. The desire to git engineers, and taxtiillerists, the principal cause of our. Being so overhurthened. The first that came, had, sagacity enough, quickly to discern wants, imd professing competency in these branches.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.