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Notes for Sunday – July 17, 2016
Saturday, July 16, 2016 21:57
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On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress learns of General George Washington’s refusal to accept a dispatch from British General William Howe and his brother, Admiral Richard Viscount Howe, opening peace negotiations, because it failed to use the title “general”. In response, Congress proclaimed that the commander-in-chief acted “with a dignity becoming his station,” and directed all American commanders to receive only letters addressed to them “in the characters they respectively sustain.”
Source: https://survivalblog.com/notes-for-sunday-july-17-2016/
