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 | | LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732I 794), American statesman and orator, was born at Stratford, in Westmoreland county, Virginia, on the 20th of January 1732, and was one of six distinguished sons of Thomas Lee (d. |
 | | Lee was one of the delegates from Virginia to the first Continental Congress at Philadelphia in 1774, and prepared the address to the people of British America, and the second address to the people of Great Britain, which are among the most effective papers of the time. |
 | | Lee was personally in charge of the unsuccessful West Virginian operations in the autumn, and, having been made a full general on the 3ist of August, during the winter he devoted his experience as an engineer to the fortification and general defence of the Atlantic coast. |
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