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General Orders, 4 November 1779

General Orders

Head-Quarters Moores House [West Point]
thursday Novr 4th 1779.

Parole Nassau— C. Signs Tyrol. Pomfret.

The works at Fort Arnold and redoubts No. 2 & No. 5 to be carried on again—The superintending officers are desired to attend the works as heretofore.1

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. For an overview of the defensive works at West Point and efforts to coordinate their construction in late July, see GW to Alexander McDougall, 19 June, n.2, and the general orders for 24 and 28, 29, 30 July.

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    “General Orders, 4 November 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-23-02-0139. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 23, 22 October–31 December 1779, ed. William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, pp. 148–149.]