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- GLC#
- GLC02437.10228-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- circa 4 April 1792
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- [Extracts from the instructions to Major General St. Clair] [Incomplete]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 19 p. : Height: 38.6 cm, Width: 23.2 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Explains duties for General St. Clair under the employ of the United States government concerning conflict with the Indians. States that "[t]he great policy therefore of the general government is to establish a just and liberal peace with all the Indian tribes within the limits and in the vicinity of the [territory ?] of the United States." Describes details of future campaigns and orders. Despite the goal of peace, "[i]t is hardly possible if the Indians continue hostile, that [you] will be suffered quietly to establish a post at the Miami village." Extracts date from March 21, 1791 to June 23, 1791. Sewn binding and pages are numbered in the upper left corner, starting from 37 to 55. Letterpress copy.
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