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  2. Charles Lee (general) - Wikipedia

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    Lee's infamy became orthodoxy in such 19th-century works as Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (1855–1859), George Washington Parke Custis's Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington (1861) and George Bancroft's History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the American Continent (1854–1878). [83]

  3. Battle of Monmouth order of battle - Wikipedia

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    Battle of Monmouth painting shows George Washington rallying his men while an embarrassed Charles Lee waits nearby. The Battle of Monmouth on June 28, 1778, saw a colonial American army under Major General George Washington fight a British army led by Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton.

  4. Charles Lee (Attorney General) - Wikipedia

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    Lee's grave in the Warrenton Cemetery. Charles Lee (January 1, 1758 – June 24, 1815) was an American lawyer and politician from Virginia who served as United States Attorney General from 1795 until 1801, [1] and as United States Secretary of State ad interim from May 13, 1800, to June 5, 1800, [2] [3] after serving as prosecutor for the City of Alexandria [4] and serving in the Virginia ...

  5. Battle of Monmouth - Wikipedia

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    Custis was inevitably derogatory towards Lee, and Lee's calumny achieved an orthodoxy in such works as Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (1855–1859) and George Bancroft's History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the American Continent (1854–1878). The role Lee had unsuccessfully advanced for the militia in ...

  6. New York and New Jersey campaign - Wikipedia

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    In January 1776, Washington ordered Charles Lee to raise troops and take command of New York's defenses. [7] Lee made some progress on the city's defenses when word arrived in late March that the British army had left Boston after Washington threatened them from heights south of the city.

  7. Battle of Sullivan's Island - Wikipedia

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    Major General Charles Lee, sent by Major General George Washington to see to the defense of New York, coincidentally arrived there the same day as Clinton. [10] New York was at that time extremely tense; Patriot forces were beginning to disarm and evict Loyalists, and the British fleet anchored there was having difficulty acquiring provisions. [11]

  8. George Washington - Wikipedia

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    George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, [a] at Popes Creek in Westmoreland County, ... Horatio Gates, Charles Lee, Philip Schuyler, and Nathanael Greene. [72]

  9. Fort Lee Historic Park - Wikipedia

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    The bluff was the site of George Washington's 1776 encampment opposite Fort Washington at the northern end of Manhattan. [4] Fort Lee is named for General Charles Lee. The site is a reconstruction of the encampment including the blockhouse, battery, quarters as well as a visitors center. It is part of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission.