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Two reports on the Battle of Princeton...
Two reports on the Battle of Princeton...
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April 03, 1777
THE LONDON EVENING POST, England, April 3, 1777 The top of the ftpg. has a column with news from America: "...New York, Lord Cornwallis was surrounded in the Jerseys and had but 24 hours provisions left...were reduced to the necessity of starving...The troops under Lord Cornwallis...are so greatly diminished in number...that they would be obliged to contract their line still farther...".
Page 2 has a letter reporting the Battle of Princeton: "...arrived from General Washington the the agreeable news that last Friday he attacked a party of the enemy about 3 miles east of Prince Town, killed and took 500...." with more. Also mention that: "...the death of Omiah, the native of Otaheite [Tahiti]...received from Capt. Cook on board the Resolution...".
The back page has another account of the historic Battle of Princeton, and then also: "General Cornwallis has 8000 men...at New Brunswick, Mr. Washington 150 at Morris Town yet the former is afraid of attacking the latter...".
Also: "The report of General Lee being to be brought here is void of truth; for General Washington has assured General Howe that unless he exchanges that gentleman for some of his officers, he will not agree to the exchange of prisoners; and whatever punishment they inflict upon him shall get retaliated on those officers that he has got prisoners."
Other war items as well.
Four pages, folio size, never-trimmed margins, red tax stamp on page 3, nice condition.
Category: Revolutionary War
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