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Title:
PRO 30/55/039/056 - Autograph Letter from Alex Leslie to Sir Henry Clinton
Date:
1782
Language:
English
Date from:
1782-04-28
Date to:
1782-04-28
Section:
2 : PRO 30/55 - British Army Headquarters Papers
TNA Shelfmark:
PRO 30/55/039/056
Full Description:
Alexander Leslie to Clinton. Charleston. Has received previoius dispatches. With regard to his inability to comply fully with the directions to send 2,000 troops from Charlestown to Jamaica. Transmits the proceedings of the Board of Officers assembled to consider this subject, who consider 4,500 men necessary to sustain Charleston and surrounding posts. Suggestion of sending assistance to Jamaica from New York. Transports will have to be sent for the accommodation of troops and Loyalists if it is resolved to quit either Savannah or Charleston, as there are no vessels at either of those places. The corps put under General O'Hara are ready for Jamaica, consisting of upwards of 1,000 rank and file.
TNA Link:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16324101
Format:
Handwritten
DOI:
10.1163/37612_WNA_PRO_PRO_30_55_39_56