General Orders, 14 December 1777

General Orders

Head-Quarters, at the Gulph [Pa.] Decr 14th 1777.

Parole Raritan.C. Signs Schuylkill. Delaware.

The regiments of horse are to draw provisions of any issuing Commissary, lying most convenient to them, upon proper returns therefor.

Such of the baggage as is not absolutely necessary for the troops, and all the Commissary’s and others stores, are to remain on this side of the gulph.

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

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Source Project: Washington Papers
Title: General Orders, 14 December 1777
Author: Washington, George
Date: 14 December 1777

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Cite as: “General Orders, 14 December 1777,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-12-02-0550. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 12, 26 October 1777 – 25 December 1777, ed. Frank E. Grizzard, Jr. and David R. Hoth. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002, p. 603.]