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- GLC#
- GLC02437.02873-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 30 December 1783
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Baron Von Steuben
- Place Written
- West Point, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 23.3 cm, Width: 18.8 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Reports that the corps in the detachment at West Point have been dissolved, except for those soldiers whose terms of service have not expired. These 500 men will be commanded by Colonel [Henry] Jackson, presumably at West Point. There is also one corps of artillery commanded by Major Sebastian Bauman. Asks Steuben to instruct Jackson on the mode by which the remaining soldiers will be mustered and inspected. Plans to depart soon for Boston, leaving Jackson in charge.
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