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NCGN(D.778.005
13 Mar 1778:11,12,21 (419)
From the New-Jersey Gazette. . . [Letter from French
gentleman to his friends in France, re Burgoyne's surrender.
Near bottom of second column:] His [General Burgoyne's]
letters to Gen. Gates, you will perceive, are written in the
same pompous style . . . [2 lines, near bottom of second
column:] He had promised, when he took leave of the House of
Commons in the year 1775, to "temper his punishments of the
Americans, for rebellion, with humanity." He had boasted to
his friends, that he "would dance the ladies, and coax the
gentlemen into submission." . . . [signed] De Lisle
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