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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01179-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 10 September 1781
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Mordecai Gist
- Place Written
- Pooles Island, Maryland
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket ;
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Informs General Gist that he is sending an artificer officer named Mr. Thorp to him in Baltimore to obtain supplies. The items are urgently needed, and Knox has already been disappointed in obtaining them from Philadelphia. He hopes Major Sebastian Bauman has "proceeded in his matters." Knox was preparing for the siege of Yorktown.
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