Nathanael Greene Quote

By the letter that will accompany this, and was to have gone last night by Major Mifflin, your Excellency will see what measures I took before your favor came to hand. The passing of the ships up the river is, to be sure, a full proof of the insufficiency of the obstructions in the river to stop the ships from going up; but that garrison employs double the number of men to invest it that we have to occupy it. They must keep troops at King's Bridge, to prevent a communication with the country; and they dare not leave a very small number, for fear our people should attack them.


Letter to George Washington (9 October 1776)


By the letter that will accompany this, and was to have gone last night by Major Mifflin, your Excellency will see what measures I took before your...

By the letter that will accompany this, and was to have gone last night by Major Mifflin, your Excellency will see what measures I took before your...

By the letter that will accompany this, and was to have gone last night by Major Mifflin, your Excellency will see what measures I took before your...

By the letter that will accompany this, and was to have gone last night by Major Mifflin, your Excellency will see what measures I took before your...