biography
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| lived:
| (1756–1818)
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| biography:
| American soldier and public official, born in Prince William Co, Virgiania, USA. Known as ‘Light Horse Harry’, he led a mixed force of Continental cavalry and infantry in the storming of Paulus Hook, NJ (1779), and fought with distinction in the Southern theatre under Nathanael Greene. Lee composed the famous eulogy of his friend George Washington, whom he called ‘First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen’. The father of Robert E Lee, he had a poor head for business, speculated unwisely, and spent a term (1808–9) in a debtors' prison. |
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