1General Orders, 12 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
[Officers] For the Day Tomorrow[:] Brigadier General Paterson[,] Colonel Nixon[,] Lieutenant Colonel Littlefield[,] Major Maxwell[,] Brigade Major Darby. Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
2From George Washington to Major General William Heath, 12 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
Upon a full view of what (from the returns) must be the state of our Army when the Levies leave it the first of January —and of the little prospect there is of getting the places of many, if any of them supplied by that time —and when the importance of West point and the Southern communication with it is taken into consideration I can think of no better disposition of the Army for Winter...
3From George Washington to Colonel William Malcom, 12 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
Your favors of the 12th 14th and 29th ulto all came to hand by yesterdays post. How the two first were so long on the way I cannot tell. The disagreeable intelligence contained in them had reached me from other quarters. The blow upon the Western Frontier will be severely felt by us in the course of the Winter. Indeed I know not how we are to make up the disappointment in the Bread of that...
4From George Washington to Lieutenant General Rochambeau, 12 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have not been honored with any of your Excellency’s favors since mine of the 4th instant—neither have I received any intelligences from New York contradicting what I communicated in that letter, on the contrary, the accounts seem confirmed. I have lately made an exchange of a considerable number of prisoners with Sir Henry Clinton—part of the British are at Rutland in Massachusetts Bay, and...