howe sir william (3 Ergebnisse)

12mo, 4 pp. Good, on lightly aged paper. Docketed in a contemporary hand (Brabazon's), beside Sligo's signature, 'second letter'. Sligo writes that the 'affair' to which Brabazon's letter alludes 'was purely of an official & Parliamentary nature', and that he 'must beg leave to decline receiving any communications respecting it', excepting in his 'place in the H of Lords'. 'Lord in his speech stated that the ferment which existed in Mayo originated solely in the Election, which I could not deny.' Sligo disagrees with 's opinion 'that it was to be attributed entirely to my conduct on that occasion'. In replying 'it became necessary for me to state every fact, within my memory, which could disprove that assertion. That I did so with courtesy to you, I cannot offer you better testimony than that of the Noble Lord, who made the Motion. The affair is still in Parliamentary train'. Sligo will, once 'the papers which were moved for shall have been presented', 'set [.] right at once' 'any error in point of fact which may have, thro my inadvertence, crept into my statement'.

Third edition (first published the previous year). 4to. (4), 110 pp. With the half-title. Reply to Joseph Galloway's "Letters to a Nobleman on the Conduct of the War in the Middle Colonies." Howes H-729. Sabin 33342 (quoted the "Monthly Review"): "Sir William's vindication now appears; and candour must acknowledge that it is not a feeble attempt to rescue the gentleman's reputation from the obloquy thrown upon it." Adams "American Controversy" 80-43c. A little foxing, but a nice, wide-margined copy. Contemporary sheep (rubbed, corners bumped), rebacked, employing the original leather spine label. (#3701).

4to. pp. 1 p.l., 110. modern wrs. Third Edition. Howe succeeded Thomas Gage as commander-in-chief of the British forces in America in 1775, and during the course of the next two years defeated the colonial troops on Long Island, took possession of New York, defeated Washington at White Plains, captured Fort Washington with its garrison of two thousand men, defeated Washington at Brandywine, and entered Philadelphia. Although he repulsed the attack of Washington at Germantown, he made no attempt to drive the weak and half-starved American forces from their camp at Valley Forge, and instead spent the winter of 1777-78 in Philadelphia with his army, according to his critics, in "the eager pursuit of pleasure". Dissatisfied with his conduct, the British government recalled Howe in May of 1778, appointing Sir Henry Clinton his successor. On the investigation of his military conduct by parliament in 1779, Howe was acquitted of blame by Lord Grey, Lord Cornwallis, and other military men, who affirmed that he had done what he could considering the insufficiency of his force. Pages 35-110 contain Howe's response to charges of gross incompetence and negligence levelled against him by Joseph Galloway in the latter's Letters to a Nobleman. Adams 80-43d. Howes H-729. JCB II 2706. Sabin 33342. Winsor VI pp. 329 & 414. 78.