Crossword-Solution: EUSTIS 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Eustis, who at that time was our ambassador to France, a most genial and kindly host, who made much of Richard and his young friends.

The wrecking-crew were climbing carelessly from the caboose to the tender—even jesting with the engineer, for he heard a shuffling of feet among the coal, and the snatch of a song, something like this: Oh, the Empire State must learn to wait, And the Cannon-ball go hang! When the West-bound’s ditched, and the tool-car’s hitched, And it’s ’way for the Breakdown Gang (Tare-ra!) ’Way for the Breakdown Gang! “Say! Eustis knew what he was doin’ when he designed this rig.

William Eustis of Massachusetts, Secretary of War, was not without some little military experience, having served as a surgeon in the Revolutionary army, but he lacked every qualification for the onerous task before him.

Senator Crawford of Georgia wrote to Monroe caustically that Eustis should have been forming general and comprehensive arrangements for the organization of the troops and for the prosecution of campaigns, instead of consuming his time reading advertisements of petty retailing merchants, to find where he could purchase one hundred shoes or two hundred hats.

The utter failure of the Niagara campaign vacated the office of Secretary of War; and with Eustis retired also the Secretary of the Navy.