18241General Orders, 16 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
[Officer] For the day tomorrow[:] Brigadier General Wayne The Orderly Serjeants for court martial from the Left wing tomorrow. Trowsers having been lately drawn for the Troops instead of overalls the General recommends it to the officers to have them immediately altered into overalls which have a much better military appearance. As it is necessary for the noncommissioned officers to have side...
18242From George Washington to La Luzerne, 16 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to inclose Your Excellency a letter which came under cover to me from the Count De Rochambeau. I think the plan of engaging the German Deserters will answer a good purpose. The Chevalier De Ternay has applied to me to have a Vessel loaded with flour now in the Delaware convoyed by the Continental Frigates to Boston and the Sloop Saratoga Sent to the West Indies with his last...
18243From George Washington to Brigadier General Samuel Holden Parsons, 16 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
The number of Officers who are absent from the Connecticut line on the recruiting service & for other purposes is so great, that those remaining in Camp are scarcely sufficient to perform the necessary duties of it—I entreat you therefore to order on all the latter, and as many of the former as can possibly be dispensed with—Your knowledge of the circumstances, will enable you to point out the...
18244From George Washington to Lieutenant General Rochambeau, 16 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have sucessively received your two letters of the 8th and 10th. Other pressing occupations prevent my entering at this moment into the particulars of the last—I shall content myself with observing that I am happy to find our ideas substantially the same, and I hope a further explanation will obviate whatever little difference there may be. I have received advices that the enemy are again...
18245From George Washington to Rear Admiral Ternay, 16 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have been honored with your favors of the 8th and 10th of this month. The reasons which you assign for preferring the Harbour of Boston to that of the Delaware for the rendezvous of the 2d division are certainly well founded, and I hope, from the steps which have been taken to give them notice of the position of Admiral Arbuthnots Fleet, that they will reach one or the other of those ports...
18246George Washington to the Committee of Cooperation, 17 August 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
Orangetown [ New York ] August 17, 1780 . Describes present situation of Army. Recommends a new appeal to the states. LS , in writing of H, Papers of Continental Congress, National Archives.
18247General Orders, 17 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
[Officer] For the day tomorrow[:] Brigadier General Huntington Orderly Serjeants for court martial from the right Wing. The Division General court martial whereof Colonel Angell is President, is Dissolved. Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
18248From George Washington to the Committee at Headquarters, 17 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
We are now arrived at the middle of August; if we are able to undertake any thing in this quarter this campaign, our operations must commence in less than a month from this, or it will be absolutely too late. It will then be much later than were to be wished; and with all the exertions that can be made, we shall probably be greatly straitened in time. But I think it my duty to inform you, that...
18249From George Washington to Major General William Heath, 17 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have received successively Your three favors of the 9th 12th & 13th with three Inclosures. With respect to the Militia or Three Months Men as they are called—I do not wish them to leave the Count—as long as he shall think their services really essential; but when he judges that he can part with them without injury or inconvenience, the whole, as well those furnished by Rhode Island as those...
18250From George Washington to William Livingston, 17 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have recd your Excellency’s favor of the 4th instant. As soon as I found that Sir Henry Clintons return from the Eastward had frustrated the enterprize which I had in contemplation, I directed Colo. Seely to return again to Morris town with the Militia and wrote to the commanding Officer of the State detachment in Monmouth to remain there. By a return from Colo. seely of the 10th instant his...