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Alexander Hamilton to Clement Biddle, December 20, 1778
Headquarters [ Middle Brook, New Jersey ] December 20 [ 1778 ]. Requests minutes of trials of Charles Lee and Arthur St. Clair so that they can be published in…
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George Washington to Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von Steuben, December 19, 1778
[ Middle Brook, New Jersey ] December 19, 1778 . Will support the inspector general’s department when it is fully established.
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George Washington to Jonathan Trumbull, December 19, 1778
Middlebrook [ New Jersey ] December 19, 1778 . Regrets that plans for winter quarters cannot be altered.
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Alexander Hamilton to Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von Steuben, December 19, 1778
[Middlebrook, New Jersey, December 19, 1778] I snatch a hasty moment My Dear Baron to acknowledge the receipt of yr. obliging favour of the 6th. 1 It came here while…
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George Washington to Philip Schuyler, December 18, 1778
Middlebrook [ New Jersey ] December 18, 1778 . Congratulates Schuyler on acquittal. States that a winter campaign is now impossible. Agrees that reduction of Niagara is important and has…
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George Washington to Alexander McDougall, December 16, 1778
[ Middlebrook, New Jersey ] December 16, 1778 . Asks for McDougall’s opinion on kind and number of ships necessary to destroy enemy’s naval force on Lake Ontario.
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Robert Hanson Harrison to George Washington, December 15, 1778
[Middlebrook, New Jersey, December 15, 1778] Report of Lieutenant Colonels, Robert Hanson Harrison & Alexander Hamilton Commissioners &ca. To His Excellency General Washington— We, the Commissioners appointed by your Excellency…
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Robert Hanson Harrison to Charles O’Hara, December 12, 1778
Amboy [New Jersey] December 12th: 1778 Gentlemen, We have read the Letter, with which you were pleased to favor us, this Afternoon. We join with you in lamenting, that the…
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Charles O’Hara to Robert Hanson Harrison, December 12, 1778
[Amboy, New Jersey] 12th. December 1778 Gentlemen We cannot sufficiently lament, that the Purposes of our Meeting, you will pardon us for observing, have been defeated, by a less generous…
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Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von Steuben to Alexander Hamilton, December 6, 1778
[ Philadelphia, December 6, 1778 . On December 19, 1778, Hamilton wrote to von Steuben : “I snatch a hasty moment My Dear Baron to acknowledge the receipt of yr.…