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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
* American Revolutionary War
* Benedict Arnold's isolation
* Sacrifice of John Andre
* Human cost in the South
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.
background: This specific issue of The Pennsylvania Packet serves as a grim ledger of the American Revolution’s most volatile year, capturing the visceral transition from the shock of Benedict Arnold’s treason to the strategic desperation of the Southern Campaign. The text vividly illustrates the British military's buyer's remorse regarding Arnold; by noting he arrived as a "common deserter" without a following, the report underscores that his defection failed to trigger the expected collapse of American morale, instead costing the Crown the "brave" Major John André. This narrative of British frustration is juxtaposed with the brutal realities of the "Race to the Dan," where Cornwallis’s pursuit of General Morgan through the Carolina wilderness marked the beginning of the logistical overextension that would eventually lead to Yorktown. The inclusion of Thomas Jefferson’s correspondence regarding wartime scarcity grounds these grand military maneuvers in the stark economic exhaustion of Virginia, providing a rare, multi-theater snapshot of a fledgling nation teetering between total collapse and its ultimate independence.
Category: Revolutionary War
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