General Orders, 27 January 1779

General Orders

Head-Quarters Middle-Brook Wednesday Jany 27th 1779.

Parole Kildair—C. Signs Lar. Man.

Ensign Henry Strupp of the German Regiment is appointed Adjutant to the same from the 1st day of October 1778.1

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. Despite this order, it appears that Henry Stroop (Strupp, Strape; 1753–1843), a Pennsylvania carpenter, served as a lieutenant in Col. Benjamin Flower’s corps of artillery artificers from May 1778 to December 1780 (see Pa. Archives description begins Samuel Hazard et al., eds. Pennsylvania Archives. 9 ser., 138 vols. Philadelphia and Harrisburg, 1852–1949. description ends , 5th ser., 3:1107). The adjutant of the German Battalion from August 1776 to June 1779 was Louis de Linkensdorf, formerly a lieutenant in one of the king of Sardinia’s Swiss regiments (see Pa. Archives description begins Samuel Hazard et al., eds. Pennsylvania Archives. 9 ser., 138 vols. Philadelphia and Harrisburg, 1852–1949. description ends , 5th ser., 3:789).

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Title: General Orders, 27 January 1779
Author: Washington, George
Date: 27 January 1779

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Cite as: “General Orders, 27 January 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-19-02-0073. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 19, 15 January–7 April 1779, ed. Philander D. Chase and William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009, p. 82.]