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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01974-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 3, 1783
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Benjamin Lincoln
- Place Written
- West Point, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 33.5 cm, Width: 20.9 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Discusses anxiety within the Army and a mission of General Alexander McDougall, possibly in connection to a petition of Congress for payment for the enlisted men. States that " ... if they [the army] should be disbanded previous to a settlement, without knowing who to look to for an adjustment of accounts & responsibility of payment, they will be so deeply stung by the injustice & ingratitude of their country as to be become its tygers [sic] & wolves."
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