12th. Snowing & hailing in the Night, with the Wind fresh from the No. East. In the Morning the ground was covered about two Inches deep. The wind continuing in the same place was accompanied by a rain and mist the whole day. In the evening it cleared the wind having shifted to the Westwd.
[Diary entry: 12 March 1780]
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- [Diary entry: 12 March 1780]
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- Washington, George
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- 12 March 1780
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- Year: The Weather at Headquarters
- Month: March [1780]
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- “[Diary entry: 12 March 1780],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0006-0004-0012. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 3, 1 January 1771–5 November 1781, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, pp. 347–348.]