He is a gambler, but brave, rough but generous, irritable, but often very kind.

Opposition inflames him, but he likes zeal and good service.

He is very fond of your young Mr.Washington, who, I hear is much of a man." The council in the great tent was long and weighty, and well it might have been, even far beyond the wildest thoughts of any of the participants.

These were the beginnings of events that shook not only America but Europe for sixty years.

In the tent they agreed upon a great and comprehensive scheme of campaign that had been proposed some time before.