Citation - New England Chronicle-Cambridge: 1776.01.04

NECH-C.776.001
28 Dec 1775-4 Jan 1776:12 (8/388)
A Letter from General Lee to General Burgoyne. Camp on
Prospect-Hill, Dec. 1, 1775. . . [Long letter, near end:]
But the dignity of Great-Britain it seems is at stake. 
Would you, Sir, if in the heat of passion you had struck a
simple drummer of your regiment, and afterwards discovered
that you had done it unjustly, think it any forfeiture of
your dignity to acknowledge the wrong? . . .