Washington: A BiographyPutnam, 1976 - 432 pages The title unwraps the cool patrician of historical image in order to find the man of pride, passion, self-doubt and self-restraint which had long been buried. |
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Page 58
... Williamsburg on 8 October 1753 . He would draw up the message , he informed them , but he needed a bearer , familiar with the frontier country , strong enough to endure the journey , sufficiently well mannered to impress the French ...
... Williamsburg on 8 October 1753 . He would draw up the message , he informed them , but he needed a bearer , familiar with the frontier country , strong enough to endure the journey , sufficiently well mannered to impress the French ...
Page 59
... Williamsburg on 15 January , husbanding three things - the stiff reply of the French com- mander to the summons from Dinwiddie , the certainty that 59 the French planned a spring offensive , and his own IV Force by Force.
... Williamsburg on 15 January , husbanding three things - the stiff reply of the French com- mander to the summons from Dinwiddie , the certainty that 59 the French planned a spring offensive , and his own IV Force by Force.
Page 132
... Williamsburg society with a steady head , good humor , and an earthy com- mon sense . Doubtless , she now lost no time in turning these assets on the colonel , so much more appealing than the pli- ant Custis , so completely his own man ...
... Williamsburg society with a steady head , good humor , and an earthy com- mon sense . Doubtless , she now lost no time in turning these assets on the colonel , so much more appealing than the pli- ant Custis , so completely his own man ...
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