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Updated: June 28, 2025
He ordered a horse to be saddled, went into his wife's room to tell her he was ruined, and desired his aide- de-camp to inform General Washington that he was going to West Point and would return in the course of an hour. On our arrival here, we crossed the river and went to examine the works.
My old aide de-camp Hernoux, and Bruat, escorted me outside the entrance to the port, and returned in the pilot's boat. The last link with the soil of the mother-country was broken, Forward then, my boy! In a few days we were before Cadiz, that lovely Andalusian city.
Tom, the admiral observed, frequently helped "the generalissimo's aide- de-camp," especially in pouring out his wine, which he limited in a marked degree; but the jocular lieutenant-commander passed this off by saying that his distinguished friend whom he exchanged a word with occasionally, of some outlandish language, a mixture of Spanish and High Dutch, with a sprinkling of the Chinese tongue was in the most feeble health and acting under the doctor's directions regarding his diet: that was the reason also, he explained, of his remaining cloaked and with his head-covering on at the admiral's table, for which he craved a thousand pardons!
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