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Title: Charles Lee, Esquirer, Major General d'Armee des XIII Provinces unis d'Amerique Prisonier de Guerre fait par les Anglois.
Identifier(s): graphics:5108; APSimg3937; Graphics Number: M42-15-35
Description: Garvan Coll., No. 747.
Source: Print Collection (Garvan);
Subject: Portraits ; Lee, Charles, 1731-1782
Date: n. d.

Title: Nelson, Thomas to [Thomas] Jefferson, 1776 February 4; B J35.51 no.14. Nelson, Thomas, 1738-1789. Letter to [Thomas] Jefferson
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:16758
Description: Letter from Thomas Nelson to Thomas Jefferson on February 4th, 1776 about the current state of the Invasion of Quebec. Nelson writes that a ship from England had arrived containing saltpetre, gunpowder, and arms. He also describes Charles Lee's movements and actions and Congress's responses to them.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; Canadian Invasion, 1775-1776; Washington, George, 1732-1799; Lee, Charles, 1731-1782; United States. Continental Congress
Date: 1776-02-04; 2022

Title: Connor, Morgan to Jesse Lukens, 1775 November 11; Connor, Morgan. ALS to Jesse Lickens
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7425
Description: Morgan Connor writes to Jesse Lukens about the arrival of the "enemy", presumably the British Army. Conner describes the response by the Continental Army.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; Lee, Charles, 1731-1782
Date: 1775-11-11; 2022

Title: In Council of safety. Philadelphia, October 14, 1776. Congress has received intelligence from General Lee that the Hessians have embarked from Staten-Island ... have your battalion in perfect readiness to march at the shortest warning ...; 6. Pennsylvania. Council of Safety.In Council of safety : Philadelphia, October 14, 1776 ... Hessians have embarked from Staten-Island ... have your battalion in perfect readiness to march at the shortest warning
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7146
Description: A broadside announcing the arrival of Hessians who have embarked on Staten Island. The Council of Safety urges readiness and assures the public that they will provide "provisions and accommodations". "The defence of our Country depends on the Spirit of its Inhabitants; and we firmly rely on their Virtue and Patriotism for the Support of that Freedom which we have a Right to enjoy, and which we are bound to transmit unimpaired to Posterity."; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Media; Mobilizing the Populace; Broadsides; United States -- History -- Revolution; Hessians; Lee, Charles, 1731-1782; United States. Continental Congress; Pennsylvania. Committee of Safety
Date: 1776-10-14; 2022

Title: Huntington, Jedediah to Jabez Huntington, 1776 December 11, 28; No. 597 Jedediah Huntington to Jabez Huntington
Identifier(s): text:348954
Description: Mentions being "still buryed among the Mountains"; mentions that General Washington is pursuing the enemy and that Gen. [Charles] Lee is at Morristown, [N.J.]; gives instructions about money; comments that although the situation is disagreeable in some respects, "a Sense of Duty Retains me in the Service"; informs him that Jedediah Huntington has been advised to quit the service and that when the enlistment of the troops at Peekskill expires, he will be without a command; informs him that Gen. [William] Heath and the troops from Massachusetts and Connecticut will join General Washington, who is in the vicinity of Trenton, [N.J.]; expresses surprise that the Southern colonies cannot furnish sufficient militia in the present emergency; informs him that Gen. [Sir William] Howe and part of the enemy troops have returned to New York.
Creator: Huntington, Jedediah, 1743-1818et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Huntington, Jabez, 1719-1786; Washington, George, 1732-1799; Lee, Charles, 1731-1782; Heath, William, 1737-1814; Howe, William Howe, Viscount, 1729-1814
Date: 1776 December 11, 28; 2022

Title: Pendleton, Edmund to Richard Henry Lee, 1776 April 08; Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803. ALS to Richard Henry Lee
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:16450
Description: Letter from Edmund Pendleton to Richard Henry Lee. Pendleton describes the arrival of Charles Lee after his time in Boston and New England. Relays Lee's thoughts on the war and the potential movements of the British.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Mobilizing the Populace; Waging the War; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--18th century; United States. Declaration of Independence--Signers; United States. Continental Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.; Militia; Lee, Charles, 1731-1782
Date: 1776-04-08; 2021