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Title:
PRO 30/55/023/072 - Autograph Letter to M G Campbell
Date:
1780
Language:
English
Date from:
1780-05-28
Date to:
1780-05-28
Section:
2 : PRO 30/55 - British Army Headquarters Papers
TNA Shelfmark:
PRO 30/55/023/072
Full Description:
[Clinton] to Campbell. Headquarters, Charlestown. Acknowledges various letters and enclosures. Hopes Sir Peter Parker has sent assistance to Pensacola. This place capitualated on the '12th inst'. with 6,000 prisoners and a large depot of stores and artillery. Encloses a copy of the capitulation and proclamation which has since been issued. Cornwallis will be left in command of this district. 5,000 men marched on an expedition to the backcountry where a fovourable disposition [of Loyalist forces] shows itself.
TNA Link:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16277755
Format:
Handwritten
DOI:
10.1163/37612_WNA_PRO_PRO_30_55_23_72