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52651 Editorial Note After GW in December 1769 secured from Governor Botetourt and the Virginia council authorization...
52652 Errata Volume 1—p. xxiv, line 33: 1949–57 is 1948–57; p. 55, n.3: Thomas Nelson (1716–1782) is Thomas...
52653 Editorial Note In preparation for the writing of this letter, GW composed a list of topics which he wished to be...
52654 Editorial Note The committee of conference that Congress appointed on 30 Sept. arrived at Cambridge on 15 Oct....
52655 Editorial Note The following opinions concerning the defense of Philadelphia and the Delaware River apparently...
52656 Editorial Note The American dispositions on the east side of Brandywine Creek probably were complete by the...
52657 Editorial Note The network of spies and couriers that has come to be known as the Culper ring, on account of the...
52658 Editorial Note Following his receipt of Congress’s official notification that Vice Admiral d’Estaing had arrived...
52659 Editorial Note The effectiveness of an army rests in large measure on the quality of its officers. GW recognized...
52660 Editorial Note Since 1778, GW had relied on the Culper spy network for intelligence from inside New York City....
52661 Editorial Note German lieutenant general Wilhelm von Knyphausen temporarily commanded at New York while British...
52662 Editorial Note GW suspected that British commander in chief Henry Clinton would immediately launch an offensive...
52663 Editorial Note Lieutenant General Rochambeau had suggested in August that he and Rear Admiral Ternay meet GW to...
52664 Editorial Note Maj. John André’s sterling career as a British army officer ended abruptly because of his role in...
52665 Editorial Note Fig. 2. Engraving of Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold by H. B. Hall from a portrait by John Trumbull....
52666 Editorial Note Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold recruited Joshua Hett Smith—who came from a family with significant...
52667 Editorial Note The unwillingness of the French expeditionary force to leave Rhode Island to combine with the...
52668 Editorial Note E ditorial N ote The Society of the Cincinnati was instituted at Fishkill-on-Hudson on 13 May...
52669 Editorial Note On 15 May 1784 the Virginia house of delegates agreed “to draw up an address to his excellency...
52670 Editorial Note With the aid of Sir James Jay, Lady Huntingdon in 1784 developed a proposal to send out from...
52671 Editorial Note In the years immediately preceding the American Revolution, GW devoted considerable time and...
52672 Editorial Note General Lincoln did not complete this extended account of Shays’ Rebellion for GW until 4 Mar....
52673 Editorial Note Editorial Note David Humphreys wrote GW from France on 30 Sept. 1784 about the utility of having...
52674 Editorial Note [New York, 30 April 1789] By early 1789 GW reluctantly accepted the inevitability of his election...
52675 Editorial Note Under the terms of the Residence Act, GW was directed to select the site for the permanent seat...
52676 Editorial Note The bill to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States had not yet been...
52677 Editorial Note GW began considering the schedule and route of his intended Southern Tour at least as early as...
52678 Editorial Note GW’s nomination on 22 Dec. 1791 of Thomas Pinckney, Gouverneur Morris, and William Short as...
52679 Editorial Note On 16 Jan. 1792 the U.S. House of Representatives began considering GW’s message of 11 Jan. and...
52680 Editorial Note Congress’s presentation of “An Act for an apportionment of Representatives among the several...