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NJG-B.777.003
31 Dec 1777:11,12,13 (1/5)
[Letter from French gentleman to his friends in France, re
Burgoyne's surrender. Near bottom of second column:] His
[General Burgoyne's] letter to General Gates, you will
perceive, are written in the same pompous style . . . [2
lines] 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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