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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03141-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 8 May 1785
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 32.5 cm, Width: 19.7 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Knox writes to Crevecoeur, French consul at New York. Expresses his regret at Crevecoeur's loss of important papers. Apparently responding to Crevecoeur's request for information related to the Revolutionary War, writes, "...I was not at the frontiers during the War having always been with the Army under the immediate orders of His Ex Gen Washington[.]"
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