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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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Letters from 1778
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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.…
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James McHenry to Alexander Hamilton, December 6, 1778
[ Paramus, New Jersey, December 6, 1778 . “… desire Colo. Harrison to write to Genl. Greene on the subject of his Letter respecting a change of ground for hutting.…
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John Laurens to Alexander Hamilton, December 5, 1778
[Philadelphia, December 5, 1778] My Dear Hamilton: You have seen, and by this time considered, General Lee’s infamous publication. 1 I have collected some hints for an answer; but I…
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George Washington to Baron De Kalb, December 4, 1778
Elizabethtown [ New Jersey ] December 4, 1778 . Reports advance of British vessels up North River. Gives instructions for countering British move.
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George Washington to William Malcom, November 30, 1778
Fishkill [ New York ] November 30, 1778 . Will not be able to stop at West Point as intended. States that Brigadier General Alexander McDougall is to assume command…
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George Washington to Robert Hanson Harrison, November 30, 1778
[Fishkill, New York, November 30, 1778] By His Excellency George Washington Esquire, General & Commander in chief of the Forces of the United States of America. To Lieut Colonel Rob…