BIB_ID
122627
Accession number
MA 488.6
Creator
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806.
Display Date
1781 Oct. 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 23.1 cm
Notes
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
Announcing the defeat of Cornwallis in Virginia; giving details of the battle for Yorktown; mentioning the benefits of the fall of Yorktown, and noting that the enemy will "be confined to Charlestown and New York, and reduced to a defensive war of those two posts"; commenting on the "exalted talents of General [Nathanael] Greene [that] have been amply displayed in North and South Carolina"; commending the French troops who are fighting with the Americans; telling him that he will try to send him "copies of the capitulations, and returns of the troops and stores taken"; speculating that the Americans will be able to take New York from the British if the French fleet helps them; asking him to look for his brother who will soon be visiting Europe.
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