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12. British National Archives, Colonial Office Papers, 1777, 5:2; Paul K. Walker, Engineers of Independence: A Documentary History of the Army Engineers in the American Revolution, 1775β1783 (Washington, DC: Historical Division, Office of Administrative Services, Office of the Chief of Engineers, 1981), 175β77; Arthur P. Watts, βA Newly Discovered Letter of Brigadier-General Duportail,β Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 1, no. 2 (April 1934): 101β6.
13. Henry Laurens to George Washington, November 19, 1777, in US Continental Congress et al., Journals, 9:900β901, 932; Washington, Papers, 12:319.
CHAPTER 2
1. William Spohn Baker, ed., Itinerary of General Washington: From June 15, 1775, to December 23, 1783 (Lambertville, NJ: Hunterdon House, 1970), 106.
2. George Washington, letter to the president of Congress, November 16, 1778, in George Washington, The Papers of George Washington, ed. Philander D. Chase, Revolutionary War Series (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985), 18:168.
3. Paul K. Walker, Engineers of Independence: A Documentary History of the Army Engineers in the American Revolution, 1775β1783 (Washington, DC: Historical Division, Office of Administrative Services, Office of the Chief of Engineers, 1981), 178β79; Washington, Papers, 12:387β88. Contemporary translation by John Laurens. The original in French is signed Le Chr. du Portail.
4. Baker, Itinerary, 106.
5. Nathanael Greene, The Papers of General Nathanael Greene, ed. Richard K. Showman, Margaret Cobb, Robert E. McCarthy, Joyce Boulind, Noel P. Conlon, and Nathaniel N. Shipton (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, for the Rhode Island Historical Society, 1976), 2:229; Washington, Papers, 12:500.
6. Walker, Engineers of Independence, 179β82; Washington, Papers, 12:457β59. In the original French, the name is signed by the writer, Duportail. Contemporary translation by John Laurens. The omissions indicated relate to conditions that might have arisen but did not materialize.
7. Marquis de Lafayette, βLetters from the Marquis de Lafayette to Hon. Henry Laurens, 1777β1780,β South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 7, no. 2 (April 1906): 65.
8. Washington, Papers, 12:506.
9. Walker, Engineers of Independence, 182β83; Washington, Papers, 12:515β16.
10. Baker, Itinerary, 108.
11. General orders, in Washington, Papers, 12:620β21.
12. May 16, 1778, in Benjamin Franklin, The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Leonard W. Labaree and Whitfield J. Bell Jr. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1959), http://franklinpapers.org, 26:478.
13. Frank H. Taylor, Valley Forge: A Chronicle of American Heroism (Philadelphia: James W. Nagle, 1905); Washington, Papers, 13:243.
14. Sir William Howe, The Narrative of Lt. Gen. Sir William Howe in a Committee of the House of Commons on 29th April 1779, Relative to His Conduct during His Late Command of the Kingβs Troops in North America, to Which Are Added Some Observations upon a Pamphlet Entitled Letters to a Nobleman (London: H. Baldwin, 1780), 30.
15. Elizabeth S. Kite, βGeneral Washington and the French Engineers Duportail and Companions,β Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia 43, no. 2 (June 1932): 109.
16. Walker, Engineers of Independence, 34β36; Washington, Papers, 13:262β66.
17. US Continental Congress et al., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774β1789 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1904), 13:305.
18. US Continental Congress, Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774β1789 (Washington, DC: National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1985), vol. 3, no. 147, folio 147; US Continental Congress et al., Journals, 10:305β6, 14:570β71; Washington, Papers, 10:454.
19. Brigadier General Duportail to George Washington, January 18, 1778, in Washington, Papers, 13:262β64.
20. George Washington to a Continental Congress Camp Committee, Valley Forge, March 1, 1778, in Washington, Papers, 14:5.
21. Paul H. Smith, Gerard W. Gawalt, Rosemary Fry Plakas, and Eugene R. Sheridan, eds., Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774β1789, vol. 9, February 1βMay 31, 1778 (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1982), 13:106; US Continental Congress et al., Journals, 13:57β58.
22. US Continental Congress et al., Journals, 10:114β45.
23. Edmund Cody Burnett, ed., Letters of Members of the Continental Congress (P. Smith, 1963); Washington, Papers, 14:419β20.
24. Washington, Papers, 14:493β94.
25. Jared Sparks, The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations (Boston: American Stationersβ Company, John B. Russell, 1834), 5:325; George Washington, The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745β1799: Prepared under the Direction of the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission and Published by Authority of Congress, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1931), 11:288.
26. Washington, Papers, 14:567.
27. Brigadier General Duportail to George Washington, Valley Forge, c. April 20, 1778, in Washington, Papers, 14:562.
28. Brigadier General Duportail to George Washington, Valley Forge, c. April 29, 1778, in Washington, Papers, 14:562.
29. Walker, Engineers of Independence, 191β95; Washington, Papers, 14:559β66.
30. Washington, Papers, 14:593β94.
31. Greene, Papers, 2:381β85; Washington, Papers, 15:83β87. The rationale was omitted.
32. US Department of State, The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution: Being the Letters of Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, John Adams, John Jay, Arthur Lee, William Lee, Ralph Izard, Francis Dana, William Carmichael, Henry Laurens, John Laurens . . . and Others, Concerning the Foreign Relations of the United States during the Whole Revolution: Together with the Letters in Reply from the Secret Committee of Congress, and the Secretary of Foreign Affairs: Also the Entire Correspondence of the French Ministers, GΓ©rard and Luzerne, with Congress: Published under the Direction of the President of the United States, from the Original Manuscripts in the Department of State, Conformably to a Resolution of Congress, of March 27th, 1818, edited by Jared Sparks (Boston: N. Hale and Gray & Bowen, 1829), 2:262; Francis Wharton, ed., Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1889), 2:468β69.
33. Washington, Papers, 15:414β17; Greene, Papers, 2:434β37.
34. Walker, Engineers of Independence, 195β99; Washington, Papers, 15:439β40.
35. Elizabeth S. Kite, Brigadier-General Louis LebΓ¨gue Duportail, Commandant of Engineers in the Continental Army, 1777β1783 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1933), 46.
36. Kite, Brigadier-General Duportail, 77.
37. Washington, Papers, 15:514β15, 15:517.
CHAPTER 3
1. US Continental Congress et al., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774β 1789 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1904), 2:59.
2. George Washington, The Papers of George Washington, ed. Philander D. Chase, Revolutionary War Series (Charlottesville: University Press
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