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Both the Letters which you wrote, proposing different Plans for the destruction of the Enemys Shipping, were communicated to His Excellency. he applauds your Zeal for the Public Service and I have it in command from him to inform you, that he thinks employing some desperate fellows to use the sulphured Shirts would be the most likely way to succeed—he is afraid that the Scheme of the boats will...
Date: 25 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
. . . The naval expedition in which some of our brave landsmen, you say, have embarked, will, I hope, be crowned with deserved success.1
. . .You will be informed of Capt Barry's2 success with two or three armed boats on the Delaware. Two transports loaded with forage,3 one of them mounting six four pounders attended by a schooner,4 mounting...
Date: 9 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11