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Gates Proclamation to the people of Charleston...
Gates Proclamation to the people of Charleston...
Item # 703426
October 14, 1780
THE LONDON CHRONICLE, England, Oct. 14, 1780 Page 2 has some items on the Revolutionary War including: "Government have issued orders for the immediate raising of ten new regiments for the service of America...letter from Charlestown, South Carolina, mentions that a plot had been discovered there, in the absence of Lord Cornwallis...to murder a great number of the principal inhabitants well affected to government & afterwards to set the town on fire...".
The best content is the noteworthy: "Proclamation" to the people of Charleston, signed in type: Horatio Gates, which relates to those citizens who were forced to pledge allegiance to the British while under their control, etc.
There are additional war-related reports further in this issue, including an item reading; "...the cavalry that Col. Tarleton commands is a provincial corps & makes rather a singular figure...Their uniforms are a tight green waistcoat, without skirts, with black cuffs & capes...".
Eight pages, 8 1/2 by 11 1/4 inches, good condition.
Category: Revolutionary War
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