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Preparatory to the execution of a plan to Surprize any Ports which the Enemy might have Establish'd on the Lake, I thought proper Yesterday to dispatch a reconnoitering party with Orders to Proceed to Split Rock last night, to spend this day in Observation, and return in the Evening to an Establish'd rendezvous, and make his report. It has return'd to this place in the Moment of the Embarkation...
Date: 27 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I last evening sent Lt Lyford of the Rangers down the Lake with a smal Party to make what discoveries they could, he has this moment returned with intelligence, the Enemy were at Split Rock, with two Schooners, seven Armed Gondolas, and a large number of Batteaux, and as he heard their Morning Gun fired some Miles below, supposes their whole Army to be on their way to this place —
We have only...
Date: 28 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8