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To George Washington from Major General Alexander McDougall, 31 May 1779

From Major General Alexander McDougall

Head Quarters Pecks Kill [N.Y.] May 31st 1779

Sir

I have just Time to inform your Excellency, that last Evening the Enemy had about forty Sail of Vessels at Phillips’s, His Troops encamped from the North River to Mile square; and the Intelligence adds, that from the Position of the Transports, it appear’d they were embarking Troops.1 I have the Honor to be your Excellency’s very humble servant

Alexr McDougall

LS, DLC:GW; ADf, NHi: McDougall Papers.

1. For the reasons for this British movement, see William De Hart to GW, 30 May, n.1.

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    To George Washington from Major General Alexander McDougall, 31 May 1779
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    “To George Washington from Major General Alexander McDougall, 31 May 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-20-02-0654. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 20, 8 April–31 May 1779, ed. Edward G. Lengel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, pp. 710–711.]

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