heights north of the river, today known as Colonial Heights, Virginia. His final words — uttered after a shell struck the home and killed an African-American servant named Molly — are reputed to have been "Won't that boy let me die in peace?" He and Molly were said to have been buried together, to prevent identification. Thomas Jefferson described him as "the proudest man of the proudest nation on earth". References The American Revolution, Garrison Life in French Canada and New York: Journal of an Officer in the Prinz Friedrich Regiment, 1776-1783, translated by Helga Doblin (1993) Davis, Robert P., Where a Man Can Go: Major General William Phillips, British Royal Artillery, 1731-1781 (1999) Nelson, Paul David, General Sir Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester (2000) Pearson, Michael, Those Damned Rebels: The American Revolution as Seen Through British Eyes (1972) Footnotes External links 1731 births 1781 deaths American Revolutionary War deaths British Army generals British Army personnel of the American Revolutionary War British Army personnel of the Seven Years' War Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich Royal Artillery officers American Revolutionary War prisoners of war held by the United States Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1774–1780 Burials at Blandford Cemetery