Charles Cornwallis letter to Alexander Leslie, 27 June 1781

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Dear Leslie, Williamsburgh, June 27, 1781.

. . . My orders from New York make it necessary for me to give up all thought of a post on this side of James River. You will stop all the detachments that I ordered up, except the part of the 80th. ... I have &c.,

Cornwallis.

Author:
Charles Cornwallis

Source:
Correspondence of Charles, first Marquis Cornwallis, Vol I, Charles Ross, Esq., London, 1859