Thursday, December 12, 2013

This Day in History: December 12

The Secretary at War, Major Genl Lincoln, under whose orders the prisoners of War now more immediately fall, convinced that a strict hand will be necessary over the British in particular, is about removing all those to Lancaster and to this City, where they will be closely confined under Continental Guards. [The Foreigners, who are more tractable,] will be left in the Frontier Towns. [More]

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