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...general's orders of the day are famed for their sonority. One on personal behavior reads: "The general most earnestly requires and expects a due observance of those articles of war ... which forbid profane cursing, swearing and drunkenness." Wherever he moves, secretaries are kept busy handling the prodigious number of letters he turns out each day. Many of them are written to Congress to stir up pay and equipment for the Army ("100,000 dollars will be but a fleabite to our demands at this time"), especially munitions. It took him months to get the Congress to approve uniform...
After Frederick's death, George's mother, the domineering Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, took on the full responsibility for his upbringing. She gave him her own self-righteousness and kept him away from other boys, who she felt might corrupt him. Princess Augusta was equally stern with George's four brothers. Seeing the young Duke of Gloucester in an unhappy mood one day, she sharply asked why he was so silent. "I am thinking," he told her. "Thinking, Sir! And of what?" she demanded. "I am thinking," he replied, "that if ever I have...
Unlike the first two Hanoverian Kings, both of whom kept mistresses, George has been a devoted husband and father. Up at 6, he attends chapel with Charlotte and their eleven children at 8. A firm believer in hard exercise, he rides every day, rain or shine, for three or four hours and often ends the evening with several hours of simple country dancing. His other habits are equally Spartan. Lunch is usually nothing more than tea and bread and butter; dinner is often boiled mutton and turnips, washed down with barley water. He dresses plainly, and he will not even...
Benjamin West, 37, whose Quaker father kept an inn outside Philadelphia, has by now achieved a great success abroad. In fact West transformed the whole art of historical painting in 1770 by insisting that he would paint the death of General Wolfe at Quebec in the costumes and landscape in which it actually occurred, thus overturning the tradition that no hero could ever die except in the robes of ancient Greece, preferably with a temple or two in the background. West was a co-founder with Sir Joshua Reynolds of the Royal Academy of the Arts, and in 1772 King...
...last week, the whereabouts of the Turtle was being kept secret, for although the British know of the vessel's existence, they do not know where or when it might strike. Asked Connecticut Congressional Delegate William Williams impatiently: "Where is Bushnell? Why don't he attempt something? When will or can be a more proper time than is or has been?" The answers might well become clear when General William Howe's brother, Admiral Richard Howe, arrives in New York with a reinforcing fleet later this month (see THE NATION). What could be a better target for the Turtle than...