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We applied to you on the third instant, for your advice on an application to us for supplying with provisions, &c., some Troops from Connecticut, on their intended attack against Ticonderoga, &c. and it is to our great regret that we have hitherto received no answer, although we pressed it, and have since wrote to you on the subject, by Colonel [Philip] Schuyler, since which timefrequent...
Date: 12 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Gentlemen. Sensible of the great Importance of the Posts in the highlands, We have lately directed an enquiry into their Situation which will appear from the inclosed Return to be far from such as we could wish.
The Necessity General Washington has of all the Troops that compose his Army at New York, prevented his sparing to those Fortresses sufficient Garrisons or the necessary Stores ー What may...
Date: 9 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6