Knox, Henry (1750-1806) [Congressional inquiry]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10449 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry (1750-1806) Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: circa 1792 Pagination: 24 p. ; 40.7 x 24.5 cm. Order a Copy
Discusses the [Congressional] inquiry into the failure of the expedition under Major General Arthur St. Clair - this was St. Clair's Defeat, also known as the "Columbia Massacre," or the "Battle of the Wabash" in 1791 where the Indians were fighting settlers who they felt were encroaching on their land. Date previously inferred, written in blue. Letterpress copy.
[1] The report you made to the House of Representatives on [teus] eighth day of May last having been printed by order of the House and in consequence there of published to the World I conceived it be a duty I owed to myself as well as to [text loss] to address the letter to the house of Representatives on the fourteenth day of [November] last a Copy of which is hereunto annexed N:o [1]...
[24] "You will I am persuaded join at Head Quarter Fort Washinton, so soon as that you shall judge that the service does not longer require you presence at Fort Pitt, or as soon as you receive the orders for that purpose from General S.t Clair. In this case you will undoubtedly give the necessary orders to be observed relative to the collection and transportation of the troops -"
"But, as I have before mentioned to you, it is my desire to avoid the least interference with the orders/
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