Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 3 May 1793
Henry Knox to Tobias Lear
[Philadelphia] 3 May [1793]1
Dear Sir
Please to submit the enclosed letter to the President of the U.S.2
H. Knox
ALS, DLC:GW; LB, DLC:GW.
1. Lear’s docket indicates that this letter was written on 3 May 1793.
2. In the enclosed letter of 27 April 1793, Gen. Anthony Wayne suggested to Knox that in order to ensure American military success against the Indians of the Northwest Territory, the United States should take possession of Forts Niagara and Detroit while the British were preoccupied with their war against France ( 228–31).