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Much on the war, including reference to the Arnold/Andre treason...
Much on the war, including reference to the Arnold/Andre treason...
Item # 701123
March 13, 1781
THE PENNSYLVANIA PACKET OR THE GENERAL ADVERTISER, Philadelphia, March 13, 1781 Inside pages have various reports on the Revolutionary War, a few bits including: "General Arnold's letter to Lord George Germaine...says, that Congress would not be able to stand their ground half an hour if his lordship would publicly...declare to America the terms that would be given to all the colonies..." and then a reference to Arnold's treason: "...in North America a rebel chief has revolted from his new masters and joined the royal standard; but he has revolted alone...come like a common deserter without bringing a single centinel with him! for his desertion we have paid dear, in the ignominious, untimely death of a brave officer of distinguished rank and merit!", the latter a reference to Major John Andre.
Another report mentions in part: "...from South Carolina, nothing dan exec the face of misery in Charlestown and the district within 30 or 40 miles of that town since it fell under the domination of Britain...". Another item begins: "After Tarleton's defeat Lord Cornwallis pursued General Morgan with great rapidity to Ramsours on the south fork of Catawba..." with more.
The back page has an extract of a letter from Governor Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson mentions during the war being quite scarce.
Other items also, too lengthy to detail here, but mostly seen in the photos.
Four pages, never-trimmed margins, great condition.
Category: Revolutionary War
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