Feminine Generalship

On one occasion the noted British officer Tarleton was speaking contemptuously of Colonel Williaim Washington to a patriot lady. " Why," said Tarleton, "they tell me he is so ignorant that he cannot even write his name." With a meaning glance at Tarleton's right hand, which Washington had wounded, the lady replied, "But nobody is better aware than you, Colonel Tarleton, that Colonel Washington knows how to make his mark. "