Arms for Vessels

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Type

Letterbook Copy

Description

Describes new rules concerning the fitting and arming of ships by belligerent nations in ports or harbors of the United States.

Date

08/16/1793

Sent from

War Department

Document number

1793081600101

Page start

1

Note

This document is a surviving fragment of the George Clinton Papers, which suffered extensive damage in a 1911 fire in the State Capitol [New York]. Knox wrote the same letter to other Governors. See Knox to Telfair, August 16, 1793.

Notable persons

George Clinton
Henry Knox

Notable locations

New York
War Department
United States
State of New York
Charleston
Philadelphia
Delaware

Notable items

fitting out
prize
Citizen Genet
Sans Culottes
Vanquer de Bastille
cases
ships