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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Lucy Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00196 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: Roxbury, Massachussetts Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 6 July 1775 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 31.5 cm, Width: 19 cm Order a Copy

Describes meeting generals George Washington and Charles Lee, who begged him to return to Roxbury and expressed great pleasure in the fortifications Knox had supervised the construction of. Tells a story about how General Lee tried to get a letter to General John Burgoyne during the battle of Bunker Hill (17 June 1775), to ask him to use his "influence and endeavor to Heal this unnatural break." Criticizes and offers corrections to a widely published account of Bunker Hill by British General Thomas Gage that claimed only 170 redcoats were killed. The Revolutionary War began at the battle of Bunker Hill a few weeks earlier. Lucy was in Worcester, Massachusetts, away from the danger in Boston.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824
Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792
Lee, Charles, 1732-1782

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