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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01260-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- October 24, 1781
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- [Gen Knox presents his compliments to the Marquis de Rostaing].
- Place Written
- Yorktown, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. :
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Indicates that he is sending one of the pieces of ordnance seized from a British redoubt at the Battle of Yorktown to the regiment of Gattenois, which stormed that redoubt on 14 October 1781. The transfer was made in accordance with George Washington's orders (see GLC02437.01259). A third person letter in Shaw's hand.
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