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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Samuel Osgood

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03646 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: New Windsor, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 9 July 1782 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 22.1 cm, Width: 18.6 cm Order a Copy

Writes to Osgood, then a member of the Continental Congress and the treasury board, to request that Congress pay Baron von Steuben. States that "it has been owing to [von Steuben] that a substantial discipline has been established in the American Army," that he "is particularly attached to the cause of America," but "can no longer live without pay." (See GLC02437.01480 for the retained copy of this letter)

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Osgood, Samuel, 1748-1813
Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794

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