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A plan Mss. of the English & Hessian army on Fort Washington done by a Hessian captain

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

January 1777

Primary Source Reference:

Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 17v

Notes:

On 29 July 1776 the Continental Congress recommended the donor, French volunteer Chevalier Marie Fidel Dorré, to George Washington "to be employed . . . as he shall think proper." Charles Willson Peale painted his portrait, a miniature (unlocated). Sellers, P&M, p. 70 (no. 225)