Advice on Building Posts During Negotiations, Supply by Land, and Care of Visiting Wabash Chiefs
Document 1792Knox warns that that it would be improper to build new posts during treaty negotiations, but if the peace talks fail, the posts should be built during the winter or in the early spring. He talks again of having cattle carry provisions as a way of saving money. When the Wabash chiefs arrive, every effort must be made to make them comfortable.
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Recipient's Letterbook Copy
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Knox warns that that it would be improper to build new posts during treaty negotiations, but if the peace talks fail, the posts should be built during the winter or in the early spring. He talks again of having cattle carry provisions as a way of saving money. When the Wabash chiefs arrive, every effort must be made to make them comfortable.
Date
11/17/1792
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Repository
Collection
Document number
1792111713055
Page start
121
Note
Cited in Wayne to Knox, 11/23/1792.
Spans Images 121-123 of this collection.
Notable persons
Anthony Wayne
Henry Knox
Contractors
Army
hostile Indians
Congress
troops
Lieutenant Pryor
Wabash Chiefs
Capt. Brock
recruits from Winchester
Capt. Winston
Lieutenant Tinsley
Notable locations
War Department
the Ohio
Forts Hamilton, St. Clair & Jefferson
Winchester
Richmond
Notable items
waters
proposed fortified Camp
strength and operations of the garrisons
Provision of beef cattle
the moving Army
ultimate intentions of the hostile Indians
war
winter
early in the Spring
training the beef cattle to the carrying of burdens
the incumbrances of the horses
subject of recruiting the troops