| Birth: | Jan. 29, 1756 | | Death: | Mar. 25, 1818 | 
Revolutionary War Continental Army Officer, US Congressman. The father of Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee, his lightning raids against the British during the American Revolution earned him the nickname “Light-Horse Harry.” He also wrote the famous epitaph of George Washington, “First in War, first in Peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” Born in Leesylvania, Prince William County, Virginia, he graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1773. A captain in the Virginia Cavalry in 1776, his unit joined General George Washington’s Army. In 1778, he was promoted to Major and commanded a cavalry troop called “Lee’s Legion,” which he led in a daring raid on the British post at Paulus Hook, New Jersey. In 1780, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and fought under General Nathaniel Greene. After the war, Lee served in the Virginia House of Delegates and in the Congress, from 1785 to 1788, then served as Governor of Virginia from 1791 to 1794. He commanded the troops sent by President George Washington in 1794 to end the Whisky Rebellion. A member of the Federalist Party, he served as a Congressman from 1799 to 1801. In later years, Lee fell into debt, and in 1808 to 1809, he was imprisoned in debtor’s prison, during which time he wrote his “Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States.” In the strife that led up to the War of 1812, he was injured while trying to protect a friend from rioters in Baltimore, Maryland, receiving wounds from which he never recovered. He would die at his home in Montross, Virginia in 1818. (bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
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Parents:
Henry Lee (1729 - 1787)
Lucy Ludwell Grymes Lee (1734 - 1792)
Spouses:
Ann Hill Carter Lee (1779 - 1829)
Matilda Lee Lee (1763 - 1790)
Search Amazon for Henry Lee | | | Burial:
Lee Chapel Museum
Lexington (Lexington City County)
Lexington City
Virginia, USA |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Jan 01, 2001
Find A Grave Memorial# 2452 |
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DSmith
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John Graham
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REMEMBERING YOU TODAY, GEN. LEE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND DEVOTION TO YOUR COUNTRY. GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS. REST IN GOD'S PEACE AND LIGHT.
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S.P.
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