13821From George Washington to Baron Robert Dillon, 23 March 1781 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 1st from Philada met me at this place on my return from Newport—I cannot but approve that Zeal which carries you to the southward with the Marquis de la Fayette while I am assured that you would not have undertaken the measure had it in the least interfered with your duty in the French Army. I had the pleasure of seeing your Brothers and other Friends well at Lebanon. I am...
13822To George Washington from Brigadier General Lachlan McIntosh, 14 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
Altho’ I despised the Slander I found so Industriously Spread upon the Road as I came down. I am too tenacious of my own Reputation. and the reflection it may Occasion upon your Excellencys Judgement in appointing an Improper Officer to a Department, to pass over what may tend to injure either hereafter, & committed to Record. The groundless Aspersions of Colo. George Morgan in the Course of...
13823To George Washington from Brigadier General La Rochefermoy, 25 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
je Vous écris dans L’amertume d’un coeur navré de La plus grande douleur, Sur La perte que nous Venons de faire: L’evacuation des deux places, tyconderoga et mont indépendance, que Le général St Clair a été obligé d’ordonner, est une avanture de La quelle je ne puis me Consoler, et que j’aurois toutes Les peines du monde a croïre Si je n’avois été moi même present de La précipitation avec La...
13824To Benjamin Franklin from Vergennes, 31 July 1780 (Franklin Papers)
LS : National Archives; draft: Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; copies: University of Pennsylvania Library, Library of Congress, Massachusetts Historical Society; transcript: National Archives Le caractere dont vous etes revétu, Monsieur, votre sagesse et la confiance que je mêts dans vos principes et dans vos sentiments, m’engagent à vous communiquer la correspondance que je...
13825From Alexander Hamilton to Major General Nathanael Greene, [10 September 1779] (Hamilton Papers)
I really do not think it would be an adviseable measure to detach a brigade, for though I should not apprehend any material danger here, yet I think without some substantial object, it would hardly be prudent to lessen our force. There are possible events that might at least embarrass us. But my principal objection arises from my considering a compliance rather as a bad precedent; if you yield...
13826From George Washington to James Duane, 9 July 1782 (Washington Papers)
Baron de Steuben, who will have the honor of presenting this Letter to you, feeling himself in a disagreeable situation, has made a representation of it to Congress, in expectation that that Honble Body will releive him from present distress, & place him—especially with respect to half pay—upon a more permanent footing than the thing appears to be with him at present, having no State to resort...
13827From George Washington to Colonel Thomas Procter, 26 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Upon a revisal of the Return of the Names and Ranks of the Officers of your Regt I find it intitled “the Pennsylvania State Regt of Artillery.” I shall therefore be glad to know whether the Regiment has by any late Resolve of Congress been returned to the Service of the State, or whether you only meant to distinguish it by that name from the others—I wish to be precisely informed upon this...
13828To George Washington from Major General Nathanael Greene, 16 July 1778 (Washington Papers)
General Varnum is at this place and has very lately returnd from Rhode Island, he says that there are 1500 State troops including the Artillery Regiment. There is the Continental Battallion commanded by Col. Greene about 130 strong. Besides these 2500 Militia are orderd from the Massachusets, Conecticut, & New Hampshire States, part of which are already arrivd; and the others dayly coming in....
13829From George Washington to Col. Henry Knox, 19 August 1776 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Col. Henry Knox, 19 Aug. 1776. GW wrote to William Heath on this date : “I have wrote to Colo. Knox this morning.”
13830To Benjamin Franklin from Pierres, 25 August 1783 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society M. le Duc de la Rochefoucauld m’a fait demander de votre part une Douzaine d’Exemplaires des Constitutions de l’amérique. Comme je pense que c’est votre Intention de les lui donner en papier fin, & que Ceux que j’ai fait tirer par dessus le nombre que j’ai imprimé pour vous sont destinés, Je vous prie de les lui faire passer directement. J’esperois,...