Charles Lee (general) Quote

Beware that your Northern laurels do not change to Southern willows.


To General Horatio Gates after the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga [October 17, 1777]


Beware that your Northern laurels do not change to Southern willows.

Beware that your Northern laurels do not change to Southern willows.

Beware that your Northern laurels do not change to Southern willows.

Beware that your Northern laurels do not change to Southern willows.