Henry Lee was an American insurgent and politician. He was born in 1756 at Virginia and died in 1818. Educated at Princeton, he attained distinction in the latter half of the American War of Independence as major of an insurgent corps called 'Lee's Legion', whence he derived his epithet of 'Light-Horse Harry'. In 1779 he captured Paulus Hook, and received a gold medal. In 1781 he ably covered the retreat of Greene's army, took a distinguished part at Guilford, Eutaw Springs, and the operations in the Carolinas and Georgia. He was a member of the Continental Congress, of the ratifying convention of 1788, was a Federalist, and Governor of Virginia in 1792-1795. In 1794 he led the expedition to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion. As Congressman, 1799-1801, it was his lot to pronounce the eulogy on George Washington, containing the famous characterization, 'First in war', etc. His death was caused by injuries inflicted by a Baltimore mob in 1814. Research Henry Lee
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