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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Lieutenant Thorp

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01180 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: Pool's Island Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 10 September 1781 Pagination: 3 p. : docket ; Order a Copy

Sends Thorp on an urgent trip to Baltimore to obtain supplies from General Mordecai Gist and Major Sebastian Bauman, whom he has written instruction to (see GLC02437.01178 and .01179). He is to embark with Bauman and proceed to the operation with him, referring to the upcoming siege of Yorktown.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Thorp, John, fl. 1780-1783
Gist, Mordecai, 1742-1792
Bauman, Sebastian, 1739-1803

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