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at Stratford Hall in Westmoreland County, VA
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Although Lee's father is active in Virginia politics, a series of bad financial investments land him in debtors prison. While in prison, he writes his Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department about the Revolutionary War.
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Mounting debts caused by bad business ventures force Henry Lee to move his family from Stratford Hall to Alexandria, Virginia.
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Henry Lee is severely injured while resisting a mob on his friend, newspaper editor A.C. Hanson, who had publicly opposed the War of 1812. Lee will never recover from the internal injuries he sustains.
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To escape his financial troubles, Henry Lee flees to the West Indies. The tarnished reputation of his once-great father will haunt Robert E. Lee for the rest of his life.
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Robert's older brother Carter goes to Harvard, leaving Robert to care for his invalid mother, and his sickly sister, Ann.
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While attempting to return home to his family in Virginia, Henry Lee dies in Cumberland Island, Georgia. Despite his role as a hero in the Revolutionary War, he will be remembered most for once writing George Washington a bad check.
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At the age of 18, Robert leaves for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, which had earned the reputation as one of the best schools in the country.
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Ann Carter Lee dies at the age of 56 with Robert by her side.dies at the age of 56 with Robert by her side.
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Lee is appointed second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and assigned to Cockspur Island, Georgia.
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