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- GLC#
- GLC01069
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- July 10, 1778
- Author/Creator
- Hosmer, Titus, 1736-1780
- Title
- to Richard Law
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 3 p. : address : docket : free frank Height: 23 cm, Width: 19 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Relays news that the Compte d' Estaing had set sail with a fleet for Delaware or Chesapeake Bay and that a British fleet has set out to intercept them. Today they were informed that d'Estaing arrived near Maryland three days earlier and set off for Sandy Hook. Notes that war had been declared in Paris against England and French troops were in transit toward America. Comments on the recent passage of the Articles of Confederation in Congress.
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