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- GLC#
- GLC04805
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- October 16, 1778
- Author/Creator
- Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792
- Title
- [Congressional resolution denying the flag of truce to British Peace Commissioners]
- Place Written
- Yorktown, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 29.8 cm, Width: 20.6 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Denies the use of flags of truce to "nefarious" British peace commissioners who abused the privilege to disseminate "under the sanction of a Flag certain seditious Papers under the name and title of Manifestoes...with a view to stir up dissentious animosities and Rebellions among the goode Popele of these States."
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