Word: lees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington's basic plan was established last winter by his British-trained second in command, gaunt, hot-tempered Major General Charles Lee. Before going south to take command in Charles Town, South Carolina, Lee studied New York. His conclusions: since the two best military plans (burning the city or simply abandoning it to Howe) were both politically and morally objectionable, the only way open was a defense that would show the flag and yet make the British pay heavily for taking the city. He persuaded Washington to 1) keep most of his troops dispersed around New York...
...made those self-deprecating statements at the time of his selection last year, he was acknowledging that Congress's choice had not been inevitable-and perhaps not even right. Among the others who had been considered: Artemas Ward, then 47, ailing commander of the Massachusetts troops, and Charles Lee, 44, who now serves Washington as first major general. But the Massachusetts delegates themselves realized that they could best win continent-wide support by letting a southerner take the lead. So it was John Adams who did most to see that the towering planter from tidewater Virginia...
Major Gen. Charles Lee...
...took up soldiering at the age of 15, learned six languages, once served as major general to the King of Poland, is an adopted son of a Mohawk tribe, and has lately been celebrated as a pamphleteer against the British Crown. A gaunt unkempt figure racked with gout, Lee is highly critical of other men's soldierly skills. "Booby-in-chief' was his sobriquet for one hapless general under whom he served during the French and Indian...
...benefit of Lee's detailed grasp of military drill, maneuvers and planning, the conservative Washington willingly puts up with Lee's eccentricities-among them profanity, a sarcastic style in writing reports, and a pack of dogs (poodles and a Pomeranian) that customarily infests his headquarters...