Run in the Blood

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Robert E. Lee, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Lee, Richard Lee I, Richard Bland Lee I, Lee Family, Henry Lee Iii, Fitzhugh Lee, Blair Lee, Iii, Thomas Sim Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, Philip Richard Fendall Ii, Charlotte Lee, Lady Baltimore, Henry A. G. Lee, George Washington Custis Lee, Richard Lee Ii, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Henry Lee Ii, John Lee Carroll, Mary Anna Custis Lee, Robert E. Lee, Jr., Lee Chapel, Edwin Gray Lee, Samuel Phillips Lee, Thomas Ludwell Lee, Zaccheus Collins Lee, Charles Lee, William Lee, Philip Lee, Sr., Henry Lee Iv, Arthur Lee, Blair Lee I, Elizabeth Blair Lee, Eleanor Percy Lee, Henry Lee I, Richard "Squire" Lee. Excerpt: Dr. Arthur Lee (20 December 1740 12 December 1792) was an American diplomat during the American Revolutionary War . He was the son of Hon. Thomas Lee (16901750) and Hannah Harrison Ludwell (17011750). His brothers, Richard Henry Lee (17321794), Francis Lightfoot Lee (17341797) and William Lee (17391795), were also Revolutionary-era diplomats.He attended Eton College in England and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh , where he graduated in 1765. He then studied law in London , and he practised there from 1770 to 1776.During the American Revolution he was dispatched as an envoy of the Continental Congress to Spain and Prussia to gain their support for the rebel cause, but he was unsuccessful in his endeavors.Later, in Paris , after helping to negotiate the Treaty of Alliance (1778) with France , he fell out with Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane . He persuaded Congress to recall Deane to America, but he was himself recalled soon afterward.Virginia sent Lee as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1782.Arthur Lee built and lived at Lansdowne, a mansion which still stands in Urbanna, Virginia , a small waterfront town o...