Politics and Political Thought

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Title Daily Entry
27 July 1775

GW at American headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  His General Orders defined how to deal with deserters and appointed John Trumbull, Jr. as aide-de-camp to GW.

24 July 1775

GW at American headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In his General Orders, he criticizes the sentinels and their officers for stopping high-level officers out of ignorance.

18 July 1775

GW at American headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

06 July 1775

GW at the American headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His General Orders include court martials for four men on the basis of desertion and theft, an order for Capt. Noadiah Leonard of Col.

01 July 1775

GW presumably traveling to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler wrote GW a letter updating him on the location of Brig. Gen.

29 June 1775

GW presumably traveling to Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Del. Delegates wrote GW a letter from Philadelphia recommending John Parke for military service.

28 June 1775

GW traveling to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

26 June 1775

GW left New York City and lodged for the night at King’s Bridge at the Northern end of Manhattan Island.

22 June 1775

GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress.  Two letters and a set of instructions from Congress were written to him on this day.

21 June 1775

GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress.
 

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