FOOTNOTES:[A]In Washington’s will he mentions “my man William, calling himself William Lee,” and gives him his freedom, along with the other slaves, and an annuity besides: “and this I give him as a testimony of my sense of his attachment to me, and for his faithful services during the Revolutionary War.”[B]Washington, in his journal, speaks of the Indian firing at him at short range, but says nothing of his preventing his companion from killing the would-be murderer. But his companion expressly says that he would have killed the Indian on the spot had not Washington forbidden him. The Indians became very superstitious about Washington’s immunity from bullets, especially after Braddock’s defeat. In that battle he was the target for the best marksmen among them, and not only escaped without a scratch, although two horses were killed under him and his clothes riddled with bullets, but he was the only officer of Braddock’s military family who survived.[C]This letter, which is printed in full in Marshall’sLife of Washington, was among the highestpersonalcompliments ever paid Washington. The signers were seasoned soldiers, addressing a young man of twenty-three, under whom they had made a campaign of frightful hardship ending in disaster. They were to be ordered to resume operations in the spring, and it was to this young man that these officers appealed, believing him to be essential to the proper conduct of the campaign.
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[A]In Washington’s will he mentions “my man William, calling himself William Lee,” and gives him his freedom, along with the other slaves, and an annuity besides: “and this I give him as a testimony of my sense of his attachment to me, and for his faithful services during the Revolutionary War.”
[A]In Washington’s will he mentions “my man William, calling himself William Lee,” and gives him his freedom, along with the other slaves, and an annuity besides: “and this I give him as a testimony of my sense of his attachment to me, and for his faithful services during the Revolutionary War.”
[B]Washington, in his journal, speaks of the Indian firing at him at short range, but says nothing of his preventing his companion from killing the would-be murderer. But his companion expressly says that he would have killed the Indian on the spot had not Washington forbidden him. The Indians became very superstitious about Washington’s immunity from bullets, especially after Braddock’s defeat. In that battle he was the target for the best marksmen among them, and not only escaped without a scratch, although two horses were killed under him and his clothes riddled with bullets, but he was the only officer of Braddock’s military family who survived.
[B]Washington, in his journal, speaks of the Indian firing at him at short range, but says nothing of his preventing his companion from killing the would-be murderer. But his companion expressly says that he would have killed the Indian on the spot had not Washington forbidden him. The Indians became very superstitious about Washington’s immunity from bullets, especially after Braddock’s defeat. In that battle he was the target for the best marksmen among them, and not only escaped without a scratch, although two horses were killed under him and his clothes riddled with bullets, but he was the only officer of Braddock’s military family who survived.
[C]This letter, which is printed in full in Marshall’sLife of Washington, was among the highestpersonalcompliments ever paid Washington. The signers were seasoned soldiers, addressing a young man of twenty-three, under whom they had made a campaign of frightful hardship ending in disaster. They were to be ordered to resume operations in the spring, and it was to this young man that these officers appealed, believing him to be essential to the proper conduct of the campaign.
[C]This letter, which is printed in full in Marshall’sLife of Washington, was among the highestpersonalcompliments ever paid Washington. The signers were seasoned soldiers, addressing a young man of twenty-three, under whom they had made a campaign of frightful hardship ending in disaster. They were to be ordered to resume operations in the spring, and it was to this young man that these officers appealed, believing him to be essential to the proper conduct of the campaign.