LAFAYETTE GILBERT DU MOTIER; MARQUIS DE Letter Signed Lafaye

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LAFAYETTE, GILBERT DU MOTIER; MARQUIS DE. Letter Signed, "Lafayette," as Major General, to Brigadier General George Weedon, asking Weedon to remain in Fredericksburg although the enemy appears headed for Williamsburg. 2 pages, 4to, with integral address leaf; signature smudged, small seal hole on address leaf. "Head Quarters" [en route from Fredericksburg to Richmond, VA], 21 June 1781

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"Your exertions have been of infinite service, and although I wish you with me, yet we must suffer greatly should we lose the assistance to be derived from your remaining a little longer where you are. This morning the enemy evacuated Richmond, and by the last accounts were near Bottoms Bridge. It is not perfectly clear from this movement that Cornwallis intends for Williamsburg, and yet it is most probable he does." Published in Lafayette and the Age of the American Revolution, IV:205.