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challenge sent to, by Wilkinson (_note_),--placed at the head of a new board of war, ii. 584; intention of the friends of, to have him made commander-in-chief--expedition against Canada planned by, to detach Lafayette from Washington, ii. 585; appointed by Congress to command the army of the South--prophetic warning of General Lee to, ii. 681; great things expected from, in the South, ii. 682; combined attack of Cornwallis and Rawdon upon--total defeat of, at Sanders's creek, ii. 683; letter of, to Washington, after his defeat, ii. 684; inquiry into the conduct of, at Camden, ii. 698; meeting of officers at Newburg presided at by, iii. 18.

Genealogy of the Washington family, i. 17.

_General Advertiser_, edited by a grandson of Franklin--action of Genet supported by, iii. 259.

Genet, Edmund Charles, arrival of, at Charleston, in 1793--practical democracy of, iii. 288; secret reasons of, for landing at Charleston--enthusiastic reception of, iii. 243; _letters of marque_ issued by, iii. 244; reception of, at Philadelphia, iii. 244, 246; abashed in the presence of Washington, iii. 246; banquet given in honor of, in Philadelphia--offended at seeing a bust of Louis XVI. in the house of the president, iii. 247; Doctor Francis on the reception of, in New York, iii. 248, 249; complaints of Mr. Hammond of the conduct of--duplicity of, iii. 252; Jefferson's opinion of the mission of, iii. 253; letter of, to Jefferson, announcing his mission, iii. 254; propositions of, not received with favor by the United States government, iii. 255; letter of, to the secretary of state, in relation to privateers,