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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Timothy Pickering

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10086 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: West Point, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: January 29, 1783 Pagination: 3 p. : docket ; Height: 35.5 cm, Width: 23.2 cm Order a Copy

General Knox writes to Pickering, Quartermaster General of the Army. Requests money to repair redoubts in the West Point vicinity. Notes that Major Villefranche, engineer at West Point, supports Knox's opinion that the redoubts are in need of repair.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
Villefranche, Jean-Louis-Ambroise de Genton, chevalier de, 1747-1784

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