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Henry Knox to Gouverneur Morris discussing military and political affairs, 21 February 1783
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Henry Knox to Gouverneur Morris discussing military and political affairs, 21 February 1783.
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Collection: The Henry Knox Papers.
Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : AM, 2014. Digitized from a copy held by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
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Knox, Commander at West Point, writes to Morris, Superintendent of Finance. Remarks, The Army generally have always reprobated being thirteen Armies. Their ardent desires have been to be one continental body looking up to one sovereign... Calls for a central government to preserve the anticipated peace. Declares, America will have fought and bled to little purpose if the powers of Government shall be insufficient to preserve the peace...why do not you great men call the people together and tell them so, that is have a convention of the States to form a better Constitution. It appears to us who have a superficial view only to be [the] most efficacious remedy. Let something be done before a peace takes place, or we shall be in a worse situation than we were at the commencement of the War.
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American history, 1493-1945. Module I.
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March 18, 2024
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American history module 1
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