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Personal data Henry Lee 

• Also known as Lighthorse Harry.
• He was born on January 29, 1756 in Dumfries, Prince William Co., VA.
• Alternative: He was born on January 19, 1756 in Dumfries, Prince William, Virginia, USA.Source 1
• Alternative: He was born on January 29, 1756 in Leesylvania, Prince William, VA.Source 1
• Resident in the year 1810: Westmoreland, Virginia, United States.Source 1
• (Civil) in Spotsylvania Co., VA.Source 1
• He died on March 25, 1818 in Cumberland Island, Georgia, USA, he was 62 years old.Source 1
• Alternative: He died on March 25, 1818 in Cumberland Island, GA, he was 62 years old.
• A child of Henry Lee and Lucy Ludwell Grymes

Household of Henry Lee

He has/had a relationship with Anne Hill Carter.

Child(ren):

1. General Robert Edward Lee  ????-1870 

Notes about Henry Lee

Lee, Henry (1756-1818), American military leader and politician, a brilliant cavalry commander during the American Revolution. He was a cousin of Arthur and Francis Lee, born near Dumfries, Virginia, and educated at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). Called Lighthorse Harry Lee, he earned his nickname for his frequent successes as an outpost leader. In 1775 Lee joined the Virginia cavalry as a captain, and two years later he was transferred to the Continental army unit of General George Washington in Pennsylvania. He was promoted to major for valor in battle in January 1778 and was placed in command of two troops of horse, a force later increased by another troop of horse and one of infantry. Lee showed a masterly command of guerrilla tactics in his use of this force, harassing the British both on the march and in camp. His capture of Paulus Hook (now Jersey City), New Jersey, which he took in a surprise raid on August 19, 1779, is regarded as one of the most brilliant exploits of the war. Lee was rewarded for this coup by promotion to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and Congress awarded him a gold medal. In 1780-81 he operated in the Carolinas in support of General Nathanael Greene and his Army of the South in the Carolinas, covering, by his ceaseless stinging forays against the British, Greene's retreat across North Carolina to Virginia. Lee resigned his commission because of ill health in 1781. From 1785 to 1788, as a member of the Continental Congress, he supported the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. He was governor of Virginia from 1791 to 1794 and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1799 to 1801. It was Lee who, in 1799, before both houses of Congress, delivered the funeral oration on George Washington, originating the now familiar phrase: First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen. He wrote Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department (1812). "Lee, Henry," Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copyright (c) 1994 Microsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1994 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation.

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