Thomas Fitzsimmons Provides Notes on St. Clair's Campaign
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Type
Document
Title
Thomas Fitzsimmons Provides Notes on St. Clair's Campaign
Description
Document, notes on interviews conducted with officers of St. Clair's campaign; describes deficiency of muskets; describes inferior quality of clothing and equipage.
short description
Doc, interviews conducted with officers
year created
1792
month created
11
day created
23
author
in collection
in image
notable person/group
Thomas Fitzsimmons
Bines
Binns
Major Ferguson
General Knox
Major Gaither
Colonel Darke
Committee
quartermaster
artificers
Commander in Chief
notable location
Maryland
Fort Washington
notable item/thing
French arms
arms
muskets
touch holes
powder
camp equipment
tents
horses
sickles
clothing
signal guns
flints
recruiting
shoes
boots
hats
levies
levy
notable idea/issue
St. Clair defeat
notable phrase
considerable difference with cloathing of the levys and regulars
inform the commanding officer of the defect of the powder and arms
order of the commander in chief
corps you commanded
examined the flints
please inform the committee what you know respecting the tents & camp equipage
tents were miserable bad so that in little time they were torn & totally insufficient to sleep
do you know who had the care of the horses under the quarter master
they had none of these things
troops equipped as to cloathing & arms
cloathing was rather inferior
men armed and the muskets were many of them deficient the touch hole being too small
powder delivered to the riflemen of the same quality
powder delivered to them was complained of
document number
1792112340001
page start
1
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Document instances
| In image | In source | Location in source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [view document] (4 pages) | AKO08 (4 pages) | Collection: Henry Knox Papers. [microfilm] | R: 33, P: 26 |
Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Thomas Fitzsimmons | [unknown] | [n/a] |