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To Alexander Hamilton from Brigadier General Louis Le Bèque Du Portail, 20 March 1779

From Brigadier General Louis Le Bèque Du Portail1

Philadelphia, March 20, 1779. Cannot obtain boats and other equipment needed to make a survey of Delaware River.

ALS, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. This letter is in French; translation by H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.

1. Du Portail, brigadier general, Corps of Engineers, was sent by Washington to Philadelphia to make a survey of the Delaware River (GW description begins John C. Fitzpatrick, ed., The Writings of George Washington (Washington, 1931–1944). description ends , XIV, 307–08).

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Brigadier General Louis Le Bèque Du Portail, 20 March 1779
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    Du Portail, Louis Le Bèque
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    20 March 1779

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Brigadier General Louis Le Bèque Du Portail, 20 March 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-02-02-0063. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 2, 1779–1781, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961, pp. 24–25.]

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