Lives of the Departed Heroes, Sages, And Statesmen of America: Confined ...
Lives of the Departed Heroes, Sages, And Statesmen of America: Confined ...
Thomas J Thomas Jones Rogers
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months aC^ OiJWDXf. 145 the capitulation, he was taken out of his bed OAthe.1l7|h of August, and, with most of the civil anfd military offi- cers, transported in a guard-ship to St. Augustine. This was done by the order of lord Comwallis, and it was in violation of the rights of prisoners on parole. Guards were left at- their houses, and the private papers of some of them were examined. A parole was offered at St. Augustine, but such was the indignation of lieutenant- governor Gadsden, at the u...ngenerous treatment which he had received, that he refused to accept it, and bore a close confinement in the castle for forty-two weeks, with the greatest fortitude. Garden, in his anecdotes of the revolutionary war, gives the following interesting particulars: ^The con- duct of the British commanders towards this venerable patriot, in the strongest manner evinced their determi- nation rather to crush the*spirit of opposition, than by conciliation to subdue it. The man did not exist to whose delicate sense of honour, even a shadow of dupli- city would have appeared more abhorrent, than general Gadsden*.
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