This person said: "Well, I?ve been tried and condemned without a hearing, and I suppose I shall have to go to execution."
George Gordon Meade
George Washington
Nathan Hale
Abraham Lincoln
Joan of Arc
George Gordon Meade.
General George Gordon Meade said "Well, I?ve been tried and condemned without a hearing, and I suppose I shall have to go to execution,? in response to his June 28, 1863 appointment as head of the Union Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. Within a week his army won the Battle of Gettysburg, assuring Meade of a record of success superior to all of his predecessors.
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