Awaiting List of Promotions & Appointments, as Essential to Legion Morale
Document 1793Wayne is anxiously awaiting the list of promotions and appointments in the Legion. He warns that the list is needed as a matter of morale and discipline.
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of promotions. — Permit me to request that you will be so obliging as to give the most positive orders for their joining the Legion without one moments delay —
I have the honor to be with unfeigned regard your most obedt
very humle Servt
A Wayne
[the Honble
Maj. Gen. Knox
Secy of war.]
No 49 — To Major Genl Knox,
Secy of war
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Legion Ville 8 March 1793
Sir,
I had the honor of addressing you on the 1st instant by Colo Procter since that period, no material occurrence has intervened —
We anxiously wait for the list of Promotions and appointments in the Legion, which by a hint you have dropt is to undergo some alteration in its organization — I have therefore suspended for the present the completion of the settlement of the Relative Rank began agreeably to the principles laid down by the General orders of the 26th ultime—
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Wayne is anxiously awaiting the list of promotions and appointments in the Legion. He warns that the list is needed as a matter of morale and discipline.
Date
03/08/1793
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Legion Ville
Repository
Collection
Document number
1793030853555
Page start
187
Note
Spans Images 187-188 of this collection.
Notable persons
Henry Knox
Anthony Wayne
Col. Proctor
the Legion
Notable locations
Legion Ville
Notable items
list of Promotions and appointments in the Legion
the completion of the settlement of the Relative Rank
principles laid down by the General Orders
General Return of the Legion

