The True George Washington [10th Ed ]
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781153724180
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Excerpt: ...one of them able to speak for the cold they have caught." Pickering, in telling how he tried to secure lodgings away from head-quarters, gave for his reasons that "they are exceedingly pinched for room.... Had I conceived how much satisfaction, quiet and even leisure, I should have enjoyed at separate quarters, I would have taken them six months ago. For at head-quarters there is a continual throng, and my room, in particular, (when I was happy enough to get one, ) was always crowded by all that came to headquarters on business, because there was no other for them, we having, for the most part, been in such small houses." There were other difficulties. "I cannot get as much cloth," the general wrote, "as will make cloaths for my servants, notwithstanding one of them that attends my person and table is indecently and most shamefully naked." One of his aides said to a correspondent, jocularly, "I take your Caution to me in Regard to my Health very kindly, but I assure you, you need be under no Apprehension of my losing it on the Score of Excess of living, that Vice is banished from this Army and the Generals Family in particular. We never sup, but go to bed and are early up." "Only conceive," Washington complained to Congress, "the mortification they (even the general officers) must suffer, when they cannot invite a French officer, a visiting friend, or a travelling acquaintance, to a better repast, than stinking whiskey (and not always that) and a bit of Beef without vegetables." At times, too, it was necessary to be an exemplar. "Our truly republican general," said Laurens, "has declared to his officers that he will set the example of passing the winter in a hut himself," and John Adams, in a time of famine, declared that "General Washington sets a fine example. He has banished wine from his table, and entertains his friends with rum and water." Whenever it was possible, however, there was company at head-quarters. "Since the General left Germantown...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153724180 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153724189 |
| Weight | 0.52 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.36 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 154 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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