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Author: Henry Knox Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Thanks Gunn for his letters of 26 April and 4 May. Says the idea of the commanding officer being a speculator is news to him. Hopes Gunn can send some confirmed information. Believes the situation with the Indian agent can be rectified, as President Washington has always wanted the agent to live among the Creeks. Tells Gunn that Washington has seen all the information on the situation in Georgia, but that troops cannot be sent to the South because of the situation in Europe. Notes militia will have to suffice to protect the frontier. Says the governor has permission to raise more militia than usual and that Washington is particularly anxious that Anthony Wayne's force be strong in light of the present state of affairs. All recruits are going to him as a result. Wants Gunn to continue his correspondence. Marked private.
Author: Henry Knox Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Thanks Gunn for his letters of 26 April and 4 May. Says the idea of the commanding officer being a speculator is news to him. Hopes Gunn can send some confirmed information. Believes the situation with the Indian agent can be rectified, as President Washington has always wanted the agent to live among the Creeks. Tells Gunn that Washington has seen all the information on the situation in Georgia, but that troops cannot be sent to the South because of the situation in Europe. Notes militia will have to suffice to protect the frontier. Says the governor has permission to raise more militia than usual and that Washington is particularly anxious that Anthony Wayne's force be strong in light of the present state of affairs. All recruits are going to him as a result. Wants Gunn to continue his correspondence. Marked private.
Author: Henry Knox Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Later copy. Thanks him for the various letters and the news they conveyed. Says I am persuaded that your good sense as well as inclination will lead you to unite cordially with General Wayne, and to promote a Spirit of harmony throughout the several corps. Mentions that Brigadier General Thomas Posey is delivering this letter. He is a gentleman from whom I flatter myself, the service will derive solid benefit. Believes Posey will arrive in time to accompany Mrs. Wilkinson down the Ohio River. Reports he has told both Mrs. Wilkinson and Colonel Biddle the pleasure your conduct gave the President of the United States. References the upheaval in Europe. Tells Wilkinson what a scene the European Theatre would be for your military talents. Mentions that Governor Henry Lee speaks of going to France. This was in reference to suggestions made by Lee when he was denied the opportunity to lead the army against the Northwest Indians. Encloses the Attorney General's opinion (not included) relative to the civil prosecution against Wilkinson in the Northwest Territory, and which I make no doubt you will pay due respect.
Author: James Gunn Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Says that the Indians have committed several murders in Washington County, with two murders committed on the frontier of South Carolina. Reports they refuse to return property or give up the offenders. Mentions the hunters have returned to the towns, which indicates a coming attack on the frontier. Believes war is inevitable and that the militia will have to be called out in the western counties of South Carolina and Georgia. Wants a commander of Rank and Ability who has a Talent for employing Militia to an Advantage in the field... If war is avoided, wants a man of talent to be a resident Indian agent for the Creeks. Reports on the poor conduct of the current agent.
Author: Henry Knox Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Later copy made from the original in November 1856. Reports that President George Washington directed him to inform St. Clair that proposed treaty negotiations between the U.S. and the hostile Indians north of the Ohio River is to take place at Lower Sandusky around 1 June. To guarantee the success of the negotiations it is necessary to make sure all hostile incursions of the white inhabitants into, or near to the Indian Country north of the Ohio, should be absolutely prohibited, until after the Treaty be closed. The commander of the troops has been ordered to make a proclamation to that effect. Asks St. Clair to take measures to prevent violence during these negotiations.
Author: Rachel B. Herrmann Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501716123 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 217
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"Rachel B. Herrmann's No Useless Mouth is truly a breath of fresh air in the way it aligns food and hunger as the focal point of a new lens to reexamine the American Revolution. Her careful scrutiny, inclusive approach, and broad synthesis―all based on extensive archival research―produced a monograph simultaneously rich, audacious, insightful, lively, and provocative."―The Journal of American History In the era of the American Revolution, the rituals of diplomacy between the British, Patriots, and Native Americans featured gifts of food, ceremonial feasts, and a shared experience of hunger. When diplomacy failed, Native Americans could destroy food stores and cut off supply chains in order to assert authority. Black colonists also stole and destroyed food to ward off hunger and carve out tenuous spaces of freedom. Hunger was a means of power and a weapon of war. In No Useless Mouth, Rachel B. Herrmann argues that Native Americans and formerly enslaved black colonists ultimately lost the battle against hunger and the larger struggle for power because white British and United States officials curtailed the abilities of men and women to fight hunger on their own terms. By describing three interrelated behaviors—food diplomacy, victual imperialism, and victual warfare—the book shows that, during this tumultuous period, hunger prevention efforts offered strategies to claim power, maintain communities, and keep rival societies at bay. Herrmann shows how Native Americans, free blacks, and enslaved peoples were "useful mouths"—not mere supplicants for food, without rights or power—who used hunger for cooperation and violence, and took steps to circumvent starvation. Her wide-ranging research on black Loyalists, Iroquois, Cherokee, Creek, and Western Confederacy Indians demonstrates that hunger creation and prevention were tools of diplomacy and warfare available to all people involved in the American Revolution. Placing hunger at the center of these struggles foregrounds the contingency and plurality of power in the British Atlantic during the Revolutionary Era. Thanks to generous funding from Cardiff University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Author: Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781017014006 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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Author: Henry Knox
Author: Henry Knox
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