[The dispatches for Fort Washington you will please to forward by the first conveyance —] N^o 12. From Gen^t Knox Sec^y of war War department August 10^th 1792. Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3 instant containing enclosures from Brig^r General Wilkinson, Captain Gist, and Mr Rosecrantz — I thank you for your early attention in making this communication, which with additional letters from General Putnam and Israel Chapin I thought of sufficient consequence to justify the expence of an express to transmit the same to you on the eighth instant P.M. Let the result of the council at Au Glaize, be what it may, Peace or War, it is pretty evident for the three following reasons, that we shall not be able this year to make any very important offensive operations. First— Because the final and explicit result of the council at Au Glaize, will not probably be known until deep in October, if they wait for the advice of the deputations of the Canada Indians. Secondly Because our recruits will not be assembled in sufficient numbers. Thirdly Because our army will not be [undecipherable: sufficiently] disciplined according to the nature of the warfare in which it is to be engaged to justify risking a general engagement for [undecipherable] on the — But —