Note 60 — Chapter XVII
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After General Gates had written his letter to Burgoyne, he called General Lincoln and myself into his apartment, read it to us, and requested our opinion of it, which we declined giving; but being pressed by him, with diffidence we concurred in judgment, that he had been too personal; to which the old gentleman replied with his characteristic bluntness, “By G—! I don’t believe either of you can mend it:”—and thus the consultation terminated.—Wilkinson’s Memoirs, vol. i. 231.