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Badlam, Stephen, 1751-1815 to Horatio Gates

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00278 Author/Creator: Badlam, Stephen, 1751-1815 Place Written: Albany, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 26 April 1776 Pagination: 1 p. : address ; 31 x 19.8 cm. Order a Copy

Reports information received from Lieutenant Colonel Peter Gansevoort and other officers returning from the siege of Quebec about the ordnance and stores available in American encampments near Quebec. There is none to speak of, with the exception of stores recently sent there from Cambridge, Massachusetts and New York City (see GLC02437.00270). Likewise, General Philip Schuyler's secretary has informed him that the artillery sent to Quebec from Schuyler's department has not been returned. Request that Gates send as much artillery and stores that can be spared in New York City to Albany, so they can be employed in continuing the invasion of Canada. A post script asks Captain Isaac Coren to be sent to Albany as well. Badlam was a captain in Knox's artillery regiment. Gates was then an adjutant general in the Continental Army, the following month he was promoted to major general.

Badlam, Stephen, 1751-1815
Gates, Horatio, 1727-1806
Gansevoort, Peter, 1749-1812
Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804
Coren, Isaac, fl. 1776

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