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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 198 (part 2)

Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900) 69 words View original →

[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] In this im-portant document (brought by the frigate "Concorde" from the West Indies to Newport, and thence forwarded to headquarters) the French admiral announced that he would set sail for Chesapeake Bay on the 3d of August with a fleet of twenty-six ships and with 3,500 land troops, but that his orders would not permit him to remain later than the 15th of October. This announcement, taken in con-