BIB_ID
122235
Accession number
MA 489.17
Creator
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834.
Display Date
[1781] Aug. 13.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 21.4 cm
Notes
Endorsed on verso.
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 New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Reporting the latest intelligence that the enemy is "not very Active in fortifying York - They Have Repaired the Battery and are doing Some thing at the Neck upon which Glocester Stands - Portsmouth is not Evacuated - there is An Uncertainty in their Movements for which I am at a Loss to Account." .
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