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General Orders, 3 June 1780

General Orders

Head Quarters Morristown saturday June 3d 1780

Parole Pultowa Countersigns Perth Pool.

[Officers] Of the Day Tomorrow[:] Brigadier General Huntington[,] Lieutenant Colonel Hait[,] Brigade Major Stark’s Brigade

Brigade Returns (regimentally digested) of all the Espontoons actually wanting in the several regiments to be made tomorrow at Orderly Time.

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

On this date, Major General Lafayette placed before GW several letters he had received from La Luzerne dated 28, 29, and 31 May. Responding to La Luzerne on this date, Lafayette wrote: “My first concern this morning was to discuss them with him and to weigh with the greatest care all the points on which you ask for a reply” (Lafayette Papers description begins Stanley J. Idzerda et al., eds. Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776–1790. 5 vols. Ithaca, N.Y., 1977-83. description ends , 3:47–50). La Luzerne’s letter to Lafayette of 29 May has not been identified. For his letters to Lafayette of 28 and 31 May on logistics for the coming campaign with the French expeditionary army, see Lafayette Papers description begins Stanley J. Idzerda et al., eds. Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776–1790. 5 vols. Ithaca, N.Y., 1977-83. description ends , 3:39–40, 45–47.

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