George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 22 August 1781]

22d. 23d. 24th. & 25th. Employed in transporting the French Army, its baggage & Stores over the river.1

1. On 23 Aug., GW and Rochambeau visited West Point (CROMOT DU BOURG description begins [Marie François Joseph Maxime, Baron Cromot du Bourg]. “Diary of a French Officer, 1781.” Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries 4 (1880): 205–14, 293–308, 376–85, 441–52; 7 (1881): 283–95. description ends , 307).

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    [Diary entry: 22 August 1781]
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    Washington, George
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    22 August 1781

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    “[Diary entry: 22 August 1781],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0007-0004-0016. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 3, 1 January 1771–5 November 1781, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, p. 414.]