LAFAYETTE GILBERT DU MOTIER; MARQUIS DE Letter Signed Lafaye

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MY POSITION IS "CALCULATED TO PROTECT THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE STATE" LAFAYETTE, GILBERT DU MOTIER; MARQUIS DE. Letter Signed, "Lafayette," as Major General, to Brigadier General George Weedon, reporting that the enemy is about to depart from Hampton Road, and that he is ready to meet them anywhere in Virginia they may land. Body of the letter in the hand of George Augustine Washington (the commander's nephew). 2 pages, folio, with integral address leaf; small stain touching signature. Malvern Hill [Henrico County, VA], 27 July 1781

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"I make no doubt before this you have heard of the enemy's being in Hampton Road. About two thousand five hundred have embarked and every thing in readiness to sail, supposed for N. York, but I cannot ascertain the certainty. They have on board pilots for the rivers and bay. I wish you to pay the most particular attention to have persons that you can confide in at the mouths of the rivers to give you the earliest information. Upon you I depend for the first disposition and the earliest information. Should they move up Potomack I will move there with the greatest rapidity as my present situation is as nearly calculated to protect the different parts of the state as possible." Published in Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution, IV:280-1.