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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01438-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 4 June 1782
- Author/Creator
- Lamb, John, 1735-1800
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Burlington, New Jersey
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 19.4 cm, Width: 16 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Relates that per Knox's instructions, he brought all the howitzers and field pieces to Burlington, and finds them in very bad shape. He is having them inspected and repaired immediately. Wrote to Colonel [Timothy] Pickering to ask him to obtain horses and wagons for moving the ordnance, but Pickering replied that he had no money and they would have to hire horses and wagons when they need them. Lamb "anticipate[s] the difficulties, we shall meet with, in transporting the ordnance, and stores."
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