Note 118 — Chapter VIII · The Siege of Boston.
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“Washington consulted with such of the general officers as he could immediately assemble. The paper was not addressed to him, nor to any one else. It was not authenticated by the signature of General Howe. Nor was there any other act obliging that commander to fulfil the promise asserted to have been made by him.”—Irving’s Life of Washington, vol. i. Mount Vernon edition, p. 223.