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Title:
PRO 30/55/023/032 - Autograph Letter from Sir H Clinton to Brigadier General McLean
Date:
1780
Language:
English
Date from:
1780-05-12
Date to:
1780-05-12
Section:
2 : PRO 30/55 - British Army Headquarters Papers
TNA Shelfmark:
PRO 30/55/023/032
Full Description:
Clinton to McLean. Charlestown. Receipt of previous letters. Charlestown has surrendered this day upon proper terms. 7,000 effectives made prisoners of war and all the shipping, artillery, ordnance stores and such have fallen into his hands. Hopes the rest of the province will soon be reduced. Requests an account of monies issued to the Commissaries in the district under his command, in accordance with the directions of the Treasury. Desires he will assist Robertson by sending coal from the mine on the Spanish River. If reinforcements are necessay for the defence of Halifaxl he is to withdraw some of the outposts. 'Marked, sent to Sir Andrew Hammond by Sergeant Pascow of 23rd Grenadiers at one o'clock, 13 May'.
TNA Link:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16277715
Format:
Handwritten
DOI:
10.1163/37612_WNA_PRO_PRO_30_55_23_32