BIB_ID
119874
Accession number
MA 506.1
Creator
Willett, Marinus, 1740-1830.
Display Date
1783 Feb. 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Irwin Collection, 1900.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 35.1 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters and documents concerning a night attack on Oswego; for more information see main record for MA 506.
Provenance
Theodore Irwin.
Summary
Describing the expedition against Oswego and giving the reasons for its failure; discussing his choice of guides and noting that "it was [his] guide that ruined [him]"; commenting on the morale of his troops throughout the mission and the loss of two soldiers who froze to death; concluding that "perhaps [he has] been deficient in points of discernment," but noting that he is "very sure [he has] not been so in points of integrity & exertions. These have been stretched to the utmost."
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