No End to the Folly of Potentates, Etc.
Document 1799Hamilton reports to the Commander in Chief on the status of the recruiting service, the appointment of officers in the northeast, and the distribution of officers in the western army. He also has information on events in Europe resulting from the publication of the Treaty of Camp Formio.
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Hamilton reports to the Commander in Chief on the status of the recruiting service, the appointment of officers in the northeast, and the distribution of officers in the western army. He also has information on events in Europe
resulting from the publication of the Treaty of Camp Formio.
Date
06/07/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
New York
Collection
Document number
1799060737100
Note
Cited in Washington to Hamilton, 06/19/1799.
Notable persons
George Washington
Alexander Hamilton
field officers for the regiment
Rufus Graves
Lt. Colonel Commandant Timothy Darling
Cornelius Lynde Majors
officers for South Carolina and Georgia
Colonel Timothy Taylor
native Americans
Colonel Burbeck
Notable locations
New York
Maryland
Delaware
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Virginia
New Hampshire
Vermont
Rhode Island
France
Notable items
recruiting service is now in motion
transmission of supplies
money and clothing
recruiting
no obstacle arises from supplies
intelligence [information] is very well
letter from Mr. Rufus King
unpleasant intelligence
publication of the Treaty of Campo Formio by the Directory
affairs of the Emperor
jealousy of the King of Prussia
no end to the folly of potentates
operations of the Arch Duke
his genius and energy