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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01277-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 31 October 1781
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Lucy Knox
- Place Written
- Yorktown, Virginia
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket ;
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Received Lucy's letter via Martha Washington and is glad to hear his daughter is in good spirits. Hopes to see her in ten days. He has to prepare to transport ordnance in the aftermath of the siege of Yorktown. Mentions that the French army will winter at Yorktown. All the Continental troops south of Pennsylvania, including Knox's, will join General Nathanael Greene. Encloses his brother William Knox's last letter (see GLC02437.01270). Reports that the British ships intended to relieve Lord Cornwallis have just arrived at the Capes too late to help. Comte de Grasse plans to attack them, and Knox opines that "It would end the campaign gloriously to take five or six Ships from the imposing english."
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