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Title: General Gates.
Identifier(s): graphics:5030; APSimg3879; Graphics Number: M42-14-20
Description: Garvan Coll., No. 705.
Creator: Tubout, C.
Source: Print Collection (Garvan);
Subject: Portraits ; Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806
Date: n. d.

Title: General Gates.
Identifier(s): graphics:5566; APSimg3879; Graphics Number: M42-14-20
Description: Portrait of Gates in uniform.; Garvan Coll., No. 705.
Creator: Tubout, C.
Source: Print Collection (Garvan);
Subject: Portraits; Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806
Date: n. d.

Title: General Horatio Gates.
Identifier(s): graphics:5159; APSimg3791; Graphics Number: M42-17-37
Creator: Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828
Source: Print Collection;
Subject: Portraits ; Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806

Title: John Burgoyne to Horatio Gates; No. 133 John Burgoyne to Horatio Gates
Identifier(s): text:320993
Description: Commits to Gates's protection Lady Harriet "Ackland" [Acland], whose husband, Maj. [John Dyke] Acland, was wounded and is a prisoner.; "Copy"
Creator: Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792et al
Subject: Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792; Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806
Date: 1777-10-09; 2021

Title: Huntington, Samuel to Richard Howly, 1780 August 9; No. 601 Samuel Huntington to Richard Howly
Identifier(s): text:348942
Description: Encloses an act [not present] of Congress of 7 Aug. that gives encouragements to officers and privates who volunteer as horsemen under Gen. [Horatio] Gates in the Southern Department and that also recommends that the executives of the states from Virginia to Georgia encourage raising a corps of volunteer horsemen.
Creator: Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796et al
Subject: Howley, Richard, 1740-1784; Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806
Date: 1780-08-09; 2022

Title: Fresh important intelligence, just arrived from the northern army; published by order of a number of the members of Congress, now in town. Kingston, Tuesday 9'clock, A.M. 23d Sept.; 9 (OS). United States. Continental Congress.Fresh important intelligence, just arrived from the northern army; published by order of a number of the members of Congress, now in town. : Kingston, Tuesday 9'clock, A.M. 23d Sept.
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7093
Description: A broadside that reprints letters that describe the war from the Northern Army's perspective on the Siege of Fort Ticonderoga.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Mobilizing the Populace; Waging the War; Broadsides; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal narratives; Wilkinson, James, 1757-1825; Visscher, Matthew, 1751-1793; Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806
Date: 1777-09-23; 2022

Title: Washington, George to William Alexander, Lord Stirling, 1777 July 30; No. 2442 George Washington to William Alexander, Lord Stirling
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:693
Description: Orders him to move to Philadelphia with all the troops at Trenton, [N.J.] as soon as Gen. [Horatio] Gates informs Stirling when the British fleet arrives in Delaware Bay.; American Philosophical Society
Creator: Washington, George, 1732-1799et al
Subject: Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Naval operations, British; Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806; United States. Continental Army
Date: 1777-07-30; 2021

Title: Burgoyne, John to Henry Laurens, 1778 February 11; B J35.51 no.27. Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792. Letter to Henry Laurens
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:16681
Description: Letter from John Burgoyne to Henry Laurens about accusations related to the Convention Army after his surrender at the Battle of Saratoga while held captive in Cambridge, MA.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Saratoga Campaign, N.Y., 1777; Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806; United States. Continental Congress
Date: 1778-02-11; 2022

Title: Huntington, Samuel to Richard Howly, 1780 August 9; No. 601 Samuel Huntington to Richard Howly
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:774
Description: Encloses an act [not present] of Congress of 7 Aug. that gives encouragements to officers and privates who volunteer as horsemen under Gen. [Horatio] Gates in the Southern Department and that also recommends that the executives of the states from Virginia to Georgia encourage raising a corps of volunteer horsemen.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Cavalry operations; Recruiting and enlistment; Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806; United States. Congress
Date: 1780-08-09; 2021

Title: Pendleton, Edmund to Richard Henry Lee, 1777 September 13; Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803. ALS to Richard Henry Lee
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:16434
Description: Letter from Edmund Pendleton to Richard Henry Lee. Pendleton writes about the Philadelphia Campaign, he references Jane McCrea and Horatio Gates in referring to the latter's public letter which claimed British-incentivized scalping. His also relays his thoughts on the war in general and Howe's movements in the South.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Political Philosophy; Waging the War; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--18th century; United States. Declaration of Independence--Signers; 1775-1783--Influence--Congresses; Indians of North America--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; McCrea, Jane, 1753-1777; Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792; Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801; Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806; Howe, William Howe, Viscount, 1729-1814
Date: 1777-09-13; 2021

Title: George Weedon Orderly Book, 1777-1778
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:1460
Description: The Valley Forge Orderly Book contains records of General, Divisional, and Brigade orders received under the command of George Weedon between August 25, 1777 and May 7, 1778. Evocative of the hardships faced by the Continental Army during the bitter winter of 1777-1778, the orderly book records orders relating to duties, disciplinary matters, promotions, and desertions. The orderly book also includes a plan of battle for the Battle of Germantown, 1777, and plans for the troops at Mount Holly (November 1777) and what appears to be Whitemarsh (November 1777). It also includes several illustrations of troop formations and an insert of an 1897 Valley Forge map.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; Lived Experience; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Clothing and dress; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Desertions; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Women; United States. Continental Army--Military life; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; White Marsh, Battle of, 1777; Germantown, Battle of, Philadelphia, Pa., 1777; Soldiers--Medical care--United States; Smallpox; Inoculation (Founding); Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778; Alexander, William, 1726-1783; Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792; Caswell, Richard, 1729-1789; Craik, James, 1730-1814; Febiger, Christian, 1746-1796; Fraser, Simon; Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; Grayson, William, 1736-1790; Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834; Maxwell, William; McDougall, Alexander, 1732-1786; Mease, James, 1771-1846; Mercer, Hugh, approximately 1725-1777; Mercer, Hugh Tennant Weedon, 1776-1853; Muhlenberg, John Peter Gabriel, 1746-1807; Pułaski, Kazimierz, 1747-1779; Stevens, Edward; Sullivan, John, 1740-1795; Varnum, James M. (James Mitchell), 1748-1789; Washington, George, 1732-1799; Weedon, George, 1734-1793; Wood, James, 1741-1813; Woodford, William, 1734-1780
Date: 1777-1778; 2022