George Washington Papers

General Orders, 25 November 1779

General Orders

Head-Quarters Moores House [West Point]
thursday Novr 25th [1779]

Parole Grafton— C. Signs Gadsden. Gibralter.

The baggage of the Maryland line to be embark’d very early tomorrow morning and sent to New-Windsor—The troops to march immediately after their baggage is embark’d, by the route assigned them.1

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. For earlier directives related to the march of Maryland troops to winter quarters, see General Orders, 17 and 20 Nov.; see also GW to Nathanael Greene, 17 Nov., n.7, and Greene to GW, same date.

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    General Orders, 25 November 1779
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    Washington, George
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    “General Orders, 25 November 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-23-02-0336. [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, p. 422.]