Malvan Hill Letters for the Year 1781

Malvan Hill - 20 July 1781

When I went to the southward, you know I had some private objections. But I became sensible of the necessity there was for the detachment to go, and I knew that, had I returned, there was nobody that could lead them

Malvan Hill - 30 July 1781

There are, in Hampton Road, thirty transport ships full of troops, most of them red-coats ; there are eight or ten brigs, which have cavalry on board.