Alexander Hamilton Papers

From Alexander Hamilton to George Ingersoll, 17 March 1800

To George Ingersoll

N York March 17th. 1800

Sir

I have been informed1 that there are at West Point some copies belonging to the public of the French work entitled Manuel D’ Artillerie. Reserving one of these for the use of the post you will send the rest to me.

Your company will be ordered to march, in the course of two or three weeks, towards Harper’s ferry. In the mean time you will make the necessary preparations. You will inform me how many field pieces there are at West Point mounted after the French plan and their calibre.

C Ingersoll

Df, in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney to H, December 12, 1799.

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    From Alexander Hamilton to George Ingersoll, 17 March 1800
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    Ingersoll, George
    Date
    17 March 1800

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    “From Alexander Hamilton to George Ingersoll, 17 March 1800,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-24-02-0261. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 24, November 1799 – June 1800, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976, pp. 331–332.]

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