Disposition of the Four Regiments of the Permanent Establishment
Document 1799Hamilton describes in detail his ambitious plan for the disposition of the four regiments of the permanant army.
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Type
Autograph Draft Document
Description
Hamilton describes in detail his ambitious plan for the disposition of the four regiments of the permanant army.
Date
10/12/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Trenton
Collection
Document number
1799101240000
Note
Cited in McHenry to Hamilton, 10/16/1799, Hamilton to McHenry, 10/22/1799 and McHenry to Hamilton, 11/15/1799.
Notable persons
James McHenry
Alexander Hamilton
General Wilkinson
Commander in Chief [Washington]
reserve force
recruits
white inhabitants
English neighbors
British traders in peltry
tribes connected with Lake Michigan
reserved force
powerful Spaniards
tribes of Indians
northwestern Indians
Great Britain
regiment allotted to General Pinckney's command
Fourth Regiment
Colonel [Thomas] Butler
Major [Daniel] Bradley
Notable locations
Trenton
Michilimacnac
Western Quarter
portals of our Northwestern territory
lower parts of the Mississippi
the Ohio
southwestern territory
Loftus Heights
the Mobile [River]
Tennessee
straits which connect Lake Erie with the Huron and Mississippi
Massac
Harpers Ferry
Georgia
Notable items
economy
attack
reinforcement and succor
enterprises of American traders
reasonable protection to the inhabitants
defeat and loss
offensive operation
rupture with Spain
fortification of stone or brick garnished with the proper exterior batteries
dimunition of amity with Spain
southern posts
boats equal to the transportation of three thousand men
want of a skillful engineer
coup de mains
citadel
arrangment for the officers of the four old regiments