Situation of the Garrison at Niagara

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Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Description

Rivardi reports on the deprivations and hardships of his garrison at Niagara as winter approaches. He has a larger number of sick than usual, including his wife. Much of his meat and flour has gone bad and he worries that his supplies won't arrive before ice blocks river transportation.

Date

10/02/1799

Sent from

Niagara

Document number

1799100260000

Notable persons

Alexander Hamilton
John J. Rivardi
Major Hoops
Captain Sill
Captain Bruff
officers of the court
Doctor Muirhead
Quartermaster's department
sick requiring attendance
Colonel O'Hara
issuing Commissary here
last detachment from Oswego
Board of War
James Thackara, engraver
your Assistant Adjutant General [Abraham Ellery]

Notable locations

Niagara
place fortified by Vauban or Coehorn
Newark [New Ark]

Notable items

charges
greater number of sick than usual
winter clothing
coats
Doctor Coffin's illness
supplies
winter
medical assistance for this garrison
Mrs. Rivardi's situation
half a gill of rum per ration
extra liquor...for fatique compensation
wharf
ice
safe basin for our boats
stormy weather
gallons of rum
vessel
state of the provisions
putrid meat
damaged flour may be of use for the public cattle
mail
papers of the garrison
quartermaster's return
"Rudiments of a Large Fortification," translated it seems from the French
extact of Clairac
Belair's "Manual de l'Artilleur"
press of [John Ward] Fenno
[treatise] on field fortifications
[treatise] of Gaudi, a Prussian officer with the additions made by Belair
trigonometrical operations