Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington to George Washington, 15 May 1781

From Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington

Norwich [Conn.] May 15. 1781

Dear Sir,

Your Favour of the 8th was handed me Yesterday.1 I hope to join the Army next Week. a Gentleman out of N. York says it is believed there that the English grand Fleet on their Passage to Gibraltar had met the combined Fleet and returned without engaging.2 I am with the highest Esteem, your Excellency⟨s⟩ most obedient servant

J. Huntington

ALS, DLC:GW.

1. See GW to Huntington, 8 May.

2. Huntington provided erroneous intelligence. Vice Admiral George Darby commanded a supply convoy that had departed in March to relieve the British besieged at Gibraltar. The convoy reached its destination on 12 April and then returned to England in late May (see Clowes, Royal Navy description begins William Laird Clowes. The Royal Navy: A History From the Earliest Times to the Present. 7 vols. London, 1897-1903. description ends , 3:502–3; see also Dull, French Navy description begins Jonathan R. Dull. The French Navy and American Independence: A Study of Arms and Diplomacy, 1774-1787. Princeton, 1975. description ends , 224–29). For an accurate report of this intelligence, see William Heath to GW, 29 May, and n.8.

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Title: Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington to George Washington, 15 May 1781
Author: Huntington, Jedediah
Recipient: Washington, George
Date: 15 May 1781

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Cite as: “Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington to George Washington, 15 May 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-32-02-0098. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 32, 6 May–4 July 1781, ed. William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023, p. 145.]

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