1To George Washington from Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 11 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Capn Tate who served with great reputation in the Continental Regiment of Artillery attached to the line of this State, does not find his Military ardour abated either by the seven years war or the seven years of peace which have succeeded the War; but he is still anxious to enlarge his fund of military experience by serving in the armies of the Porte —Altho’ he could have sailed to France in...