Washington castigated his critic, General Conway, as being capable of `` all the meanness of intrigue to gratify the absurd resentment of disappointed vanity ''.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.

If there be a disinterested patriot in America, 'tis General Washington, and his bravery, none can question ''.

`` I suppose I can never expect to call you ' General ' after that Washington episode ''.

In late August 1861, General John C. Frémont, the 1856 Republican presidential nominee, issued, without consulting Washington, a proclamation of martial law in Missouri.

He obtained Congress's consent to reinstate for Grant the rank of Lieutenant General, which no officer had held since George Washington.

* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.

Research conducted by the National Museum of American History notes that the story of Betsy Ross making the first American flag for General George Washington entered into American consciousness about the time of the 1876 centennial celebrations.

Fort Leavenworth / Washington: U. S. Army Command and General Staff College.

General Krulak attracted some attention during his tenure as commandant by his custom of delivering Christmas cookies to each marine duty post in the Washington area.

In a review of the book, Time Magazine wrote, " General Jackson's opinions need surprise no one who has observed George Washington and Abraham Lincoln zealously following the Communist Party Line in recent years.

He painted about 260 oils during the last 20 years of his life to relax, mostly landscapes but also portraits of subjects such as Mamie, their grandchildren, General Montgomery, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln.

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Eisenhower was assigned to the General Staff in Washington, where he served until June 1942 with responsibility for creating the major war plans to defeat Japan and Germany.

On the third day Allen was exchanged for Colonel Archibald Campbell, who was conducted to the exchange by Colonel Elias Boudinot, the American commissary general of prisoners appointed by General George Washington.

Susan married William Bradford, who became Chief Justice of Pennsylvania and Attorney General under George Washington.

On May 5, 1777, General George Washington asked Boudinot to be appointed as commissary general for prisoners.

In 1755, Washington was the senior American aide to British General Edward Braddock on the ill-fated Braddock expedition.

General George Washington at Trenton by John Trumbull, Yale University Art Gallery ( 1792 ).

Nominated by John Adams of Massachusetts, Washington was then appointed Major General and Commander-in-chief.

General ( United States ) | General Washington and Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette | Lafayette look over the troops at Valley Forge.

This notion of the General Will gave rise to the Commune of Paris in the Revolution and later brought Napoleon to dictatorship.

He also ascertained that many officers were indifferent to the problem, including Commanding General Frederick Funston who gave Fosdick the nickname of `` Reverend ''.

General Synod gave final authorization to the revision in 1962, to coincide with the 300th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.

According to The General History of the Pirates, published more than 25 years after the event by an author whose very identity remains in dispute, Kidd made peaceful overtures to Culliford: he " drank their Captain's health ," swearing that " he was in every respect their Brother ," and gave Culliford " a Present of an Anchor and some Guns.

However, the machine also extended the idea of multiple " General Purpose Registers " ( GPRs ), which gave the programmer flexibility to use these high-speed memory caches as they needed, potentially addressing the performance issues.

Beginning with the limited-production Cosmo Sport of 1967 and continuing to the present day with the RX-8, Mazda has become the sole manufacturer of Wankel-type engines mainly by way of attrition ( NSU and Citroën both gave up on the design during the 1970s, and prototype Corvette efforts by General Motors never made it to production.

On their 1614 map, which gave them a four year trade monopoly under a patent of the States General, they named the newly discovered and mapped territory New Netherland for the first time.

Nash was descended from the brother of General Francis Nash, who gave his name to Nashville, Tennessee.

British General John Hely-Hutchinson refused to relieve the city until Menou gave in.

On the other hand, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights states: " During its on-site observation in 1978 under the Government of General Somoza, the Permanent Commission on Human Rights in Nicaragua, ( CPDH ) gave the Commission notable assistance, which certainly helped it to prepare its report promptly and correctly.

President of the United Nations General Assembly, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations and other UN officials gave speeches there.

Although Harding desired to run for a second term in office, he may have been aware of his own health decline ; he gave up drinking, sold his " life-work ", the Marion Star, in part to regain $ 170, 000 previous investment losses, and had the U. S. Attorney General Harry Daugherty make a new will.

U. S. Senator Joe McCarthy gave a speech titled America's Retreat from Victory: The Story of George Catlett Marshall ( 1951 ), in which he argued that General Albert Coady Wedemeyer had prepared a wise plan that would keep China a valued ally, but that it had been sabotaged.

After the publication in 1724 of A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates, which gave a favorable account of Rogers ' efforts to suppress piracy in the Bahamas, his fortunes began to improve.

Garfield was issued orders to report to Washington, where he was promoted to Major General ; shortly thereafter he gave an unambiguously abolitionist speech in Maryland.

* In 2009, when the International Organization for Standardization published updated versions of ISO 80000, it gave mixed messages as to whether or not the unified atomic mass unit had been deprecated: ISO ISO 80000-1: 2009 ( General ), identified the dalton as having " earlier called the unified atomic mass unit u ", but ISO 80000-10: 2009 ( atomic and nuclear physics ) catalogued both as being alternatives for each other.

These South African actions gave rise to several rulings at the International Court of Justice, which in 1950 ruled that South Africa was not obliged to convert South-West Africa into a UN trust territory, but was still bound by the League of Nations Mandate with the United Nations General Assembly assuming the supervisory role.

General George Crook, then General Miles ' troops, aided by Apache scouts from other groups, pursued the exiles until they gave up.

Both Governor General of Canada Lord Tweedsmuir and Mackenzie King hoped that the King's presence in Canada would demonstrate the principles of the Statute of Westminster 1931, which gave full self-government to the British Dominions and recognised each Dominion as having a separate crown.

It has been suggested that Newton gave " an oblique argument for a unitarian conception of God and an implicit attack on the doctrine of the Trinity ", but the General Scholium appears to say nothing specifically about these matters.

Menem also effected drastic cuts to the military budget, and appointed Lt. Gen. Martín Balza as the Army's General Chief of Staff ( head of the military hierarchy ); Balza, a man of strong democratic convictions and a vocal critic of the Falklands War, had stood up for the legitimate government in every attempted coup d ' état throughout his senior career, and gave the first institutional self-criticism about the Armed Forces ' involvement in the 1976 coup and the ensuing reign of terror.

" After the blockade, he gave a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on 29 May saying, " the issue was not UNEF or closing the Strait of Tiran ; the issue is the rights of the Palestinian people.

On the same day, Nixon appointed a new Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, and gave him authority to designate a special counsel for the Watergate investigation who would be independent of the regular Justice Department hierarchy.

At one time the Attorney General gave legal advice to the U. S. Congress as well as the President, but this had stopped by 1819 on account of the workload involved.