Entertaining the most ardent love for civil and religious liberty, he was among the first of that

glorious band of patriots whose exertions dashed and defeated the machinations of British tyranny, and gave United America freedom and independent empire. - Tribute to Thomas Nelson by Colonel Innes. (Among the first of that glorious band of patriots were Nelson, Lincoln & Washington.)

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Thomas Nelson, Jr. gave his cousin George Washington his favorite warhorse -Nelson !

YO R KT OW N GENERAL QUESTIONS
Who is the General on the White Horse in the center ?

Lincoln

Washington

Nelson

LINCOLN ! Are you sure ? Yes, Lincoln. Benjamin Lincoln of Massachusetts, the General second in command to Washington, who sent barrels of cranberries to George Washington.
Lincoln surrendered to Clinton and Cornwallis at Charleston, South Carolina. on 12 May a.d. 1780. Lincoln accepted the surrender from OHara for Cornwallis on 19 October a.d. 1781.

Self Portrait of Artist John Trumbull, a.d. 1777 Parts of Trumbulls Notes at Yale University (below)

Who is the General on the Brown Horse in front of the American Flag? Who is the General on the Brown Horse closest to the sta of the American Flag?

Lincoln

And which Generals signed the Declaration of Independence ? Only one American Patriot... General Thomas Nelson, Jr., Favorite Son of Yorktown, also wise Governor of Virginia during the Siege of Yorktown & Victory at Yorktown !

Washington, as victor, set the terms for the Surrender of the British. In an act of selfless leadership, GW designated his second in command, Lincoln, to receive the surrender, in a display of Turn-about is fair play because of the Charleston surrender. Consistent with military protocol, General Cornwallis properly sent in his place his second in command, General OHara. General Lincoln was injured at Saratoga, yet served on at Charleston, and Yorktown. Lincoln was Lieutenant Governor when the Governor was John Hancock, who most Americans know boldly signed the Declaration of Independence, as did Governor & General Thomas Nelson, Jr. Did you know Lincoln, Lafayette, Hancock, and John Quincy Adams honored Washington by naming one of their sons George Washington ____________ ? Lincoln was a Prayer Warrior like Washington. Lincoln was a deeply religious man for whom daily prayer was key to a calm and reasoned life. These were the ideals that lay at the heart of Lincolns republicanism. Lincoln answered Gods ca$ to leadership With the adoption of the Constitution, Lincoln became one of its staunchest supporters
The great Governor of the Universe has led us too long and too far on the road to happiness and glory, to forsake us in the midst of it. By folly and improper conduct, proceeding from a variety of causes, we may now and then get bewildered; but I hope and trust that there is good sense and virtue enough left to recover the right path before we shall be entirely lost.
-- George Washington letter to Benjamin Lincoln, 29 June a.d. 1778

WISE WORDS OF WISE MEN

Nelson, Lincoln, Washington were three wise men in an army of wise men who founded our freedoms in this American Republic. What are some of their wise words?
The hand of Providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith ...will be time enough for me to turn Preacher when my present appointment ceases.
my present appointment of George Washington was General and Commander in Chief

~ General George Washington letter to cousin & Brigadier General Thomas Nelson, Jr. Citizen of Yorktown, inspired Leader of Virginia 20 August anno domini 1778
Thomas Nelson, Jr. b. 26 Dec. a.d. 1738 - d. 4 Jan. a.d 1789 (not the dates engraved on a gravestone at Grace Church, Yorktown)

May the words and deeds of Washington & Nelson Preach to America!

Should the British land at Yorktown, I shall raise a company of men, and drive them back into the sea. ~ Thomas Nelson, Jr., of Yorktown, at Saint Johns Church in Richmond, 23 March anno domini 1775 Followed by then Colonel George Washington who rose to speak based on Numbers 31:4, Raise up a thousand men from every tribe and take them off to war. George Washington spoke in support of Thomas Nelsons call to create a Militia, I will raise an army of a thousand men, subsist them at my own expense, and march at their head to the relief of Boston. These wise men were followed by Patrick Henrys famous words: Three millions of people, armed in the Holy Cause of Liberty are invincible... ...Give me Liberty, or Give me Death! (When we Virginians) get hold of Arnold, (we will) ...hang him up by the heels, according to the orders of Congress.
-- Brigadier General Thomas Nelson replied to a British Officer sent by Benedict Arnold, the Traitor to America, made Brigadier General by the British, in response to Arnolds a.d. 1781 demand to surrender the Virginia Militia. Arnold left Virginia for New York in May, Nelson led over 3000 Virginia Militia to the Yorktown Victory in October. Quote in Flight from Monticello by Michael Kranish, p.174

-- Benjamin Lincoln and the American Revolution by David B. Mattern, p.3-4 (parts on Google Books)

In the spring of 1778, Nelson was awarded the rank of Brigadier General of the Virginia Militia, and was elected to the lower house of the legislature. Congress asked wealthy men in the Colonies to form troops of light cavalry. General Thomas Nelson, partially at his own expense, outfitted, and trained a unit; then marched it northward to Philadelphia in July. In August, also in 1778, the unit returned home after Congress decided it was not needed.

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