BIB_ID
121856
Accession number
MA 488.73
Creator
La Rouërie, Charles Armand Tuffin, Marquis de, 1750-1793.
Display Date
1782 Sept. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 29.7 cm
Notes
Docketed.
This item is part of a collection of letters and documents concerning the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis; see main record for MA 488-489 for more information.
This item is part of a collection of letters and documents concerning the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis; see main record for MA 488-489 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Stating that he has just received orders from the minister at war to march to Winchester, "in consequence of advice he has received that the enemy are about evacuating Charlestown"; telling Greene that he is ready to join him immediately if the evacuation does not take place.
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