French Prize Ships
Document 1793Discusses French prize ships.
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Germantown November [undecipherable] 179[3]
in the City of [Ph[undecipherable]] [undecipherable] the
[undecipherable] of the general g[undecipherable] [undecipherable] hitherto
[undecipherable] to your Excell[ency] [undecipherable] September
[undecipherable]ent of the[undecipherable] tes, which [undecipherable] were dul[y]
instructed [undecipherable] that although the [con]tinuing of the
[undecipherable] la petite Demo[crat] and Carmagnole
[undecipherable] yet it was not the only mea-
[undecipherable]sures that la petite Dem[ocrat's]
Guns, and that la Carmagnole
[undecipherable] of the united states —
[undecipherable] comments our ports, it is conceived to
[undecipherable] be reduced to her force at the time
[undecipherable] Ambuscade, and that la Carmagnole
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] equipments —
[undecipherable] I am your Excellency's Most obedient Ser[vant]
H. Knox [undecipherable]
Type
Letterbook Copy
Description
Discusses French prize ships.
Date
11/15/1793
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Germantown
Repository
Document number
1793111500001
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]. Cited in Knox to Clinton, 11/24/1793.
Notable persons
George Clinton
Henry Knox
President of the United States
Secretary of War
Governor of New York
Notable locations
Germantown
Philadelphia
ports
New York

