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Les ordres du roy mon maitre m’ammenent aux ordres de votre excellence, j’y arrive avec toute La Soumission tout Le zele et toute La veneration que j’ai pour votre personne et pour Les talents distingués que vous montrez a Soutenir une guerre a jamais memorable. Depuis Le depart de Mr De La Fayette, il nous est arrivé beaucoup de contradictions. Le Depart de Mr De Guichen avoit degarni Le Port...
The enemy are doing what they ought to do. Greaves immediately after having joined Arbuthnot comes to cruise before us, with nine or ten ships of the line five frigates and four other small vessels. He moors at present at Block Island, in the object of opposing our designs, and intercepting the 2d division from France. Our dispatch boat charged with letters, and escorted by three frigates, has...
J’avoue a votre Excellence que si L’ennemi eut été plus vif a son arrivée, il nous eut un peu embarrassé, 1500 malades sur La flotte, 800 des Troupes de terre, quelque artillerie de campagne debarquée, pas un canon de siege, qui etoient au fond des calles. Nous fimes des Demonstrations de Troupes, ils nous donnerent 24. heures, 8 pieces de siege, 4. mortiers furent mis en batterie au Goulet,...
Mr De La Fayette a rendu compte a votre Excellence de tous Les avis reiterés qui nous sont arrives par Le Gouverneur de Connecticut, Les Generaux detachés de votre armée sur La rive gauche de La riviere du Nord, a portee d’observer le Sund, enfin par votre adjudant de Confiance, que Clinton S’embarquoit avec un gros corps de Troupes pour venir nous visiter. La position de Leur flotte toujours...
Four Days are now past, since the wind is good for Clinton to arrive if he chuses, and I begin to despair of seeing him come here. We are ready to receive him well: A considerable number of the rhode-island and Massachusets states militia is arrived here. I have agreed with Major General Heath to keep 3500 of them for the intrenched camp and for the fort at howlands ferry, to assure and...
Upon my receiving Your Excellency’s Letter of the 4th Inst. I resolved 1. to send back all the militia, after having shewn them all my Gratitude, There came of them, four times as many as we had asked for. I must not omit mentioning to Your Excellency the Minister of Stiliborough Parish Peter Thocker, who brought with him all his Parishioners, and three of his own Children, leaving his harvest...
I submit as of right to Your Excellency my ideas and my obedience to his Orders; but since he desires that I give him my opinion, it is this. I do not think that any Enterprise can be made against New York & Long Island, without a maritime superiority. The case of Offensive measures in this instance may present itself in three ways. 1st the arrival of the 2d Division with a Maritime force...
I have no new intelligence to give to your Excellency, a Man of war and Two Frigates are stationed on a cruise, before us, and every day succeed one another. The rest of the fleet is anchored at the point of Long-island. Flag[s] from the admirals have been sent and have crossed one another, it was about Prisonners to be exchanged. Admiral Graves has made a Prise much richer than the three we...
I have nothing new to inform Your Excellency of. There are always cruizing before us, one Ship of the Line and two Frigates that at night go towards the place where the fleet is anchored, off Gardner’s Island. I am wholly ignorant if the marquis de La Fayette has communicated to Your Excellency an answer I made him to a very voluminous dispatch I had from him, in which there is not the Least...
The English fleet has unmoored, the day before Yesterday, from Gardner’s island, where it had been taking in Wood and water, and has been cruizing yesterday before New London. It is said that they expected for General Clinton’s Land forces, they seem not to have given over their project of Embarking them. I have no faith to that 2d part of the News, which came to me From New London, as I have...