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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01188-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 23 September 1781
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Board of War & Ordnance
- Place Written
- Williamsburg, Virginia
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket ;
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Believes that the provisions of shot and shells will be inadequate for the siege of Yorktown. Requests additional ordnance be sent to Head of Elk, Maryland. Asks that Samuel Hodgdon, the commissary general of military stores, be ordered to superintend the transport. Signed twice, once at close of letter and once after postscript.
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