The Link (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Link It was a gray and dreary day, and the spirit of George Washington, as he sat in his Headquarters at Valley Forge, matched the day. On his desk were reports and dispatches, one a secret one telling him what he had long suspected, about an undercover attack on him personally; another, a complaint to Congress in York; and still a third, an account of their consideration of replacing him as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army for incompetence. They still thought he should attack Howe in Philadelphia. With what? he asked himself bitterly, a few ragged, half-starved, half-sick men? He smashed his fist down on his desk and the inkhorn rattled, and the quill pen leaped out with a spatter of ink across a paper. Remove me? he thought. Well, let them! Why should I spend my money, my life, my days this way? I am no military man. I am a farmer, a gentleman of Virginia, with a mother and a wife, and an old family name. I have risked all those, I have made myself a traitor in the eyes of the king of my forebears, and for what? Nothing, but to be reviled and criticized! A figure went past the window wearing the blue and white of his own bodyguards. An orderly opened the back door, and a moment later one of his favorite officers stood before Washington´s desk, his hand in salute. "What luck. Captain?" Washington asked him, and gave him a smile which he did not return. "No luck, sir," he said, bitterly. "They will not sell them to us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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