GAMBETTA (Leon Michel, French statesman. He was a brilliant and courageous agitator, and it is to his efforts in large measure that the French Republic owes its existence. It was reported at the time of his death that he met with an accident in handling a revolver, but there are those who insist that he was deliberately shot by his mistress, with whom he had quarreled), 1838-1882. "_I am lost, and there is no use to deny it._" GARDINER (James, a Scottish officer distinguished for piety and courage), 1688-1745. "_You are fighting for an earthly crown; I am going to receive a heavenly one._" These words he is reported to have spoken to an officer upon the opposite side after the battle against the Pretender at Prestonpans, in which he was mortally wounded, but there is some doubt in the minds of his biographers as to the trustworthiness of the report. See Rev. Dr. Philip Doddridge's "Life of Colonel James Gardiner," and the account of Colonel Gardiner's death in Scott's "Waverley." GARDINER (Stephen, Bishop of Winchester), 1483-1555. "_Erravi cum Petro, sed non flevi cum Petro._" GARDNER (Thomas, Colonel in the American army, killed at the battle of Bunker Hill), 1724-1775. His precise words are not preserved, but the last desire that he expressed was that he might have sufficient strength to continue the fight against the British one half hour longer. Colonel Gardner is represented, in a dramatic production called "The Battle of Bunker Hill" which was printed at Philadelphia in 1776, as saying immediately after receiving the wound of which he died: "A musket ball, death-winged, hath pierced my groin, And widely oped the swift current of my veins. Bear me then, soldiers, to that hollow space A little hence, just on the hill's decline. A surgeon there may stop the gushing wound, And gain a short respite to life, that yet I may return and fight one half hour more. Then shall I die in peace, and to my God Surrender up the spirit which he gave." GARFIELD (James A., twentieth President of the United States: assassinated by Charles Julius Guiteau), 1831-1881. "_The people my trust._" GARIBALDI (Giuseppe, Italian patriot and general, author of "Cantoni the Volunteer" and "The Rule of the Monk"), 1807-1882. As he lay dying two small birds alighted on the window-sill and looked into his room. He noticed them, and said, "_Those are the spirits of my little girls, Rosa and Annita, who have come to see their father die. Be kind to them, and feed them when I am dead._" It is thought that his mind was wandering.