General Orders, 14 February 1778

General Orders

Head-Quarters V-Forge Saturday Feby 14th 1778.

Parole: FinlandCountersigns: Fairfax. Fish.

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

Artist Charles Willson Peale wrote in his diary that he dined with GW on this date after arriving in camp at noon (Miller, Peale Papers description begins Lillian B. Miller, ed. The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family. 5 vols. New Haven, 1983–2000. description ends , 1:266).

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Source Project: Washington Papers
Title: General Orders, 14 February 1778
Author: Washington, George
Date: 14 February 1778

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Cite as: “General Orders, 14 February 1778,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-13-02-0444. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 13, 26 December 1777 – 28 February 1778, ed. Edward G. Lengel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003, p. 529.]