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Lee (CHARLES an American mili tary)

CHARLES, an American mili tary officer; born in Dernhall, Cheshire, Dernhall, Cheshire , England, in 1731. In 1775 he was made Major -General. He was captured by the British in 1776, and was exchanged in 1778. For disobedience of the orders of Washington at the battle of Monmouth in 1778, he was tried by courtmartial and sentenced to one year's suspension from the army, and afterward was altogether dismissed by Congress.

He died at Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 2, 1782.

LEE affairs in Cuba during the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the war with Spain. President McKinley having intended to send an additional message to Congress on April 6, 1898, the effect of which would have been an immediate outbreak of hostilities, Consul-General Lee cabled that he would not be able to secure the removal of American citizens from Cuba before the night of the 9th.

The President thereupon withheld his message, and on the appointed evening the Americans in Cuba who wished to leave were all conveyed from the island.

During the ensuing war with Spain he of was a Major-General of volunteers, serving in Cuba, and becoming at the close of hostilities military governor of governor Havana. In 1900 he was made comwas made commander of the Department of the Missouri. He died April 28, 1905.