This Day in History: February 13
But
Your Excellency well knows our presents supplies [inserted: &
reserves] of [struck: ordnance & stores for an ] of ordnance
& stores are totally inadequate to the demands of an arduous operation – I
have straind every nerve I [struck: have possessd of] [inserted:
possess] public and private to obtain an ample supply of shot & shells [struck:
articles] which are made in our own country to uncommon perfection but in vain
contracts which have been made for those articles upon the [struck: inst]
prospect of our instant exigence, have been suspended [inserted: or
annihilated], as soon as that [inserted: particular] prospect [strike-out]
[inserted: subsided.], And tho we have by these transitory exertions [struck:
I was] obtaind a considerable quantity of those articls yet the is
still great. [struck: The
Contracts a cause] the greater part of the contracts which were made [struck:last year] were arrested by an order from the [3] board of War just as
the furnaces began to work to the great detriment and even utter vain of some of
the owners... [More]
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