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- The Political Writings of George Washington
- The Political Writings of American Statesmen
- Frontispiece
- The Political Writings of George Washington
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I From Colonist to Patriot: 1754–1775
- Part II Commander-in-Chief: 1775–1778
- Part III The Road to Victory: 1778–1783
- To Major General Alexander McDougall, May 5, 1778 (Excerpt)
- To Major General Lafayette, May 17, 1778
- To Brigadier General William Smallwood, May 19, 1778 (Excerpt)
- To Richard Henry Lee, May 25, 1778 (Excerpt)
- To Gouverneur Morris, May 29, 1778 (Excerpt)
- To Landon Carter, May 30, 1778 (Excerpt)
- To John Augustine Washington, May 1778
- To Brigadier General Thomas Nelson, Jr., August 20, 1778 (Excerpt)
- General Orders, August 21, 1778 (Excerpt)
- To Vice Admiral Charles-Hector Théodat Estaing, September 11, 1778 (Excerpt)
- To Major General Lafayette, October 4, 1778 (Excerpt)
- General Orders, October 21, 1778 (Excerpt)
- To Henry Laurens, President of the Continental Congress, November 11, 1778 (Excerpt)
- To Henry Laurens, President of the Continental Congress, November 14, 1778
- To Joseph Reed, President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, December 12, 1778 (Excerpt)
- To Benjamin Harrison, Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, December 18–30, 1778 (Excerpts)
- To Major General Israel Putnam, January 18, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To the Continental Congress Committee of Conference, January 20, 1779
- To John Jay, President of the Continental Congress, March 15, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To Brigadier General Thomas Nelson, Jr., March 15, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To Henry Laurens, March 20, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To George Mason, March 27, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To James Warren, March 31, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To John Jay, President of the Continental Congress, April 14, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To Brigadier General William Maxwell, May 7, 1779
- To Gouverneur Morris, May 8, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To John Jay, President of the Continental Congress, May 10, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To the Delaware Nation, May 12, 1779
- To John Armstrong, May 18, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To Colonel Daniel Brodhead, May 21, 1779 (Excerpts)
- Circular to the States, May 22, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To Bryan Fairfax, June 30, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To Major Henry Lee, July 9, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To Joseph Reed, President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, July 29, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To John Jay, President of the Continental Congress, September 7, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To Edmund Pendleton, November 1, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To Major General Robert Howe, November 20, 1779 (Excerpt)
- General Orders, January 28, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Joseph Reed, President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, February 15, 1780
- To Samuel Huntington, President of the Continental Congress, April 3, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Joseph Jones, May 14, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Samuel Huntington, President of the Continental Congress, May 27–28, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Joseph Reed, President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, May 28, 1780
- To Joseph Jones, May 31, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Anne-César, Chevalier de La Luzerne, June 5, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To John Augustine Washington, June 6–July 6, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut, June 27, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Joseph Reed, President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, July 4, 1780
- To Fielding Lewis, July 6, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Mrs. Esther de Berdt Reed, July 14, 1780
- General Orders, July 20, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Joseph Jones, August 13, 1780
- To Samuel Huntington, President of the Continental Congress, August 20, 1780 (Excerpt)
- Circular to the States, August 27, 1780
- To Samuel Huntington, President of the Continental Congress, September 15, 1780 (Excerpt)
- General Orders, September 26, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To James Duane, October 4, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Brigadier General John Cadwalader, October 5, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens, October 13, 1780 (Excerpt)
- Circular to the States, October 18, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To George Mason, October 22, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To James Duane, December 26, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To John Hancock, Governor of Massachusetts, January 5, 1781
- To Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens, January 15, 1781
- General Orders, January 30, 1781 (Excerpt)
- To Robert R. Livingston, January 31, 1781
- To Samuel Huntington, President of the Continental Congress, February 3, 1781 (Excerpt)
- To John Sullivan, February 4, 1781
- General Orders, February 18, 1781 (Excerpt)
- To Philip Schuyler, February 20, 1781 (Excerpt)
- To John Parke Custis, February 28, 1781 (Excerpt)
- To Reverend Joseph Willard, March 22, 1781
- To Major General John Armstrong, March 26, 1781 (Excerpt)
- To John Mathews, June 7, 1781 (Excerpt)
- To the Magistrates of the City of Philadelphia, December 17, 1781
- To Thomas Chittenden, January 1, 1782 (Excerpt)
- Circular to the States, January 31, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To Philip Schuyler, February 6, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To Major General Alexander McDougall, March 2, 1782
- To Benjamin Harrison, Governor of Virginia, March 10, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To James McHenry, March 12, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To Colonel Lewis Nicola, May 22, 1782
- To Archibald Cary, June 15, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To John Laurens, July 10, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To Elkanah Watson, August 10, 1782
- To James McHenry, September 12, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To Thomas Paine, September 18, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To Major General Nathanael Greene, September 23, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To Benjamin Lincoln, Secretary at War, October 2, 1782
- To James McHenry, October 17, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To Reverend William Gordon, October 23, 1782
- To Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut, November 13, 1782
- To Major Benjamin Tallmadge, December 10, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To Major General Nathanael Greene, February 6, 1783 (Excerpt)
- General Orders, February 15, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Benjamin Harrison, Governor of Virginia, March 4, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Alexander Hamilton, March 4, 1783
- To Robert Morris, Superintendent of Finance, March 8, 1783
- To Alexander Hamilton, March 12, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To the Officers of the Army, March 15, 1783
- To Elias Boudinot, President of the Confederation Congress, March 18, 1783
- To Joseph Jones, March 18, 1783
- To Benjamin Harrison, Governor of Virginia, March 19, 1783
- To Lund Washington, March 19, 1783
- To Arthur Lee, March 29, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Robert R. Livingston, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, March 29, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Major General Nathanael Greene, March 31, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Alexander Hamilton, March 31, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Theodorick Bland, April 4, 1783
- To Alexander Hamilton, April 4, 1783
- To Theodorick Bland, April 4, 1783
- To Marquis de Lafayette, April 5, 1783 (Excerpts)
- To Alexander Hamilton, April 16, 1783
- General Orders, April 18, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Alexander Hamilton, April 22, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Lieutenant Colonel Tench Tilghman, April 24, 1783
- To Jean de Neufville, April 25, 1783
- To Benjamin Harrison, Governor of Virginia, April 30, 1783
- To Elisha Boudinot, President of the Confederation Congress, May 10, 1783 (Excerpt)
- Circular to the States, June 8, 1783
- To John Augustine Washington, June 15, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Elias Boudinot, President of the Confederation Congress, June 17, 1783
- To Reverend William Gordon, July 8, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Major John Joiner Ellis, July 10, 1783
- To George William Fairfax, July 10, 1783 (Excerpts)
- To Robert Stewart, August 10, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To George Martin, August 10, 1783
- Address to the Confederation Congress, August 26, 1783
- To James Duane, September 7, 1783
- To Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau, October 15, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Armand-Louis de Gontaut Biron, Duc de Lauzun, October 15, 1783 (Excerpt)
- Farewell Orders to the Army of the United States, November 2, 1783
- To the Ministers, Elders, Deacons of the Reformed German Congregation of New York, November 27, 1783
- To the Marine Society of the City of New York, November 29, 1783
- To the Members of the Volunteer Association and Other Inhabitants of the Kingdom of Ireland Who Have Lately Arrived in the City of New York, December 2, 1783
- To the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, December 9, 1783
- To the Merchants of Philadelphia, December 9, 1783
- To the Militia Officers of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, December 12, 1783
- To the Trustees and Faculty of the University of the State of Pennsylvania, December 13, 1783
- To the Learned Professions of Philadelphia, December 13, 1783
- To the American Philosophical Society, December 13, 1783
- Address to the Confederation Congress on Resigning His Commission, December 23, 1783
- Part IV From Soldier to Statesman: 1783–1788
- Index
To John Jay, President of the Continental Congress, September 7, 1779 (Excerpt)
from Part III - The Road to Victory: 1778–1783
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 August 2023
- The Political Writings of George Washington
- The Political Writings of American Statesmen
- Frontispiece
- The Political Writings of George Washington
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I From Colonist to Patriot: 1754–1775
- Part II Commander-in-Chief: 1775–1778
- Part III The Road to Victory: 1778–1783
- To Major General Alexander McDougall, May 5, 1778 (Excerpt)
- To Major General Lafayette, May 17, 1778
- To Brigadier General William Smallwood, May 19, 1778 (Excerpt)
- To Richard Henry Lee, May 25, 1778 (Excerpt)
- To Gouverneur Morris, May 29, 1778 (Excerpt)
- To Landon Carter, May 30, 1778 (Excerpt)
- To John Augustine Washington, May 1778
- To Brigadier General Thomas Nelson, Jr., August 20, 1778 (Excerpt)
- General Orders, August 21, 1778 (Excerpt)
- To Vice Admiral Charles-Hector Théodat Estaing, September 11, 1778 (Excerpt)
- To Major General Lafayette, October 4, 1778 (Excerpt)
- General Orders, October 21, 1778 (Excerpt)
- To Henry Laurens, President of the Continental Congress, November 11, 1778 (Excerpt)
- To Henry Laurens, President of the Continental Congress, November 14, 1778
- To Joseph Reed, President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, December 12, 1778 (Excerpt)
- To Benjamin Harrison, Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, December 18–30, 1778 (Excerpts)
- To Major General Israel Putnam, January 18, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To the Continental Congress Committee of Conference, January 20, 1779
- To John Jay, President of the Continental Congress, March 15, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To Brigadier General Thomas Nelson, Jr., March 15, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To Henry Laurens, March 20, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To George Mason, March 27, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To James Warren, March 31, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To John Jay, President of the Continental Congress, April 14, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To Brigadier General William Maxwell, May 7, 1779
- To Gouverneur Morris, May 8, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To John Jay, President of the Continental Congress, May 10, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To the Delaware Nation, May 12, 1779
- To John Armstrong, May 18, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To Colonel Daniel Brodhead, May 21, 1779 (Excerpts)
- Circular to the States, May 22, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To Bryan Fairfax, June 30, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To Major Henry Lee, July 9, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To Joseph Reed, President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, July 29, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To John Jay, President of the Continental Congress, September 7, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To Edmund Pendleton, November 1, 1779 (Excerpt)
- To Major General Robert Howe, November 20, 1779 (Excerpt)
- General Orders, January 28, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Joseph Reed, President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, February 15, 1780
- To Samuel Huntington, President of the Continental Congress, April 3, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Joseph Jones, May 14, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Samuel Huntington, President of the Continental Congress, May 27–28, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Joseph Reed, President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, May 28, 1780
- To Joseph Jones, May 31, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Anne-César, Chevalier de La Luzerne, June 5, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To John Augustine Washington, June 6–July 6, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut, June 27, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Joseph Reed, President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, July 4, 1780
- To Fielding Lewis, July 6, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Mrs. Esther de Berdt Reed, July 14, 1780
- General Orders, July 20, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Joseph Jones, August 13, 1780
- To Samuel Huntington, President of the Continental Congress, August 20, 1780 (Excerpt)
- Circular to the States, August 27, 1780
- To Samuel Huntington, President of the Continental Congress, September 15, 1780 (Excerpt)
- General Orders, September 26, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To James Duane, October 4, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Brigadier General John Cadwalader, October 5, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens, October 13, 1780 (Excerpt)
- Circular to the States, October 18, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To George Mason, October 22, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To James Duane, December 26, 1780 (Excerpt)
- To John Hancock, Governor of Massachusetts, January 5, 1781
- To Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens, January 15, 1781
- General Orders, January 30, 1781 (Excerpt)
- To Robert R. Livingston, January 31, 1781
- To Samuel Huntington, President of the Continental Congress, February 3, 1781 (Excerpt)
- To John Sullivan, February 4, 1781
- General Orders, February 18, 1781 (Excerpt)
- To Philip Schuyler, February 20, 1781 (Excerpt)
- To John Parke Custis, February 28, 1781 (Excerpt)
- To Reverend Joseph Willard, March 22, 1781
- To Major General John Armstrong, March 26, 1781 (Excerpt)
- To John Mathews, June 7, 1781 (Excerpt)
- To the Magistrates of the City of Philadelphia, December 17, 1781
- To Thomas Chittenden, January 1, 1782 (Excerpt)
- Circular to the States, January 31, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To Philip Schuyler, February 6, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To Major General Alexander McDougall, March 2, 1782
- To Benjamin Harrison, Governor of Virginia, March 10, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To James McHenry, March 12, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To Colonel Lewis Nicola, May 22, 1782
- To Archibald Cary, June 15, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To John Laurens, July 10, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To Elkanah Watson, August 10, 1782
- To James McHenry, September 12, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To Thomas Paine, September 18, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To Major General Nathanael Greene, September 23, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To Benjamin Lincoln, Secretary at War, October 2, 1782
- To James McHenry, October 17, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To Reverend William Gordon, October 23, 1782
- To Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut, November 13, 1782
- To Major Benjamin Tallmadge, December 10, 1782 (Excerpt)
- To Major General Nathanael Greene, February 6, 1783 (Excerpt)
- General Orders, February 15, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Benjamin Harrison, Governor of Virginia, March 4, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Alexander Hamilton, March 4, 1783
- To Robert Morris, Superintendent of Finance, March 8, 1783
- To Alexander Hamilton, March 12, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To the Officers of the Army, March 15, 1783
- To Elias Boudinot, President of the Confederation Congress, March 18, 1783
- To Joseph Jones, March 18, 1783
- To Benjamin Harrison, Governor of Virginia, March 19, 1783
- To Lund Washington, March 19, 1783
- To Arthur Lee, March 29, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Robert R. Livingston, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, March 29, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Major General Nathanael Greene, March 31, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Alexander Hamilton, March 31, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Theodorick Bland, April 4, 1783
- To Alexander Hamilton, April 4, 1783
- To Theodorick Bland, April 4, 1783
- To Marquis de Lafayette, April 5, 1783 (Excerpts)
- To Alexander Hamilton, April 16, 1783
- General Orders, April 18, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Alexander Hamilton, April 22, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Lieutenant Colonel Tench Tilghman, April 24, 1783
- To Jean de Neufville, April 25, 1783
- To Benjamin Harrison, Governor of Virginia, April 30, 1783
- To Elisha Boudinot, President of the Confederation Congress, May 10, 1783 (Excerpt)
- Circular to the States, June 8, 1783
- To John Augustine Washington, June 15, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Elias Boudinot, President of the Confederation Congress, June 17, 1783
- To Reverend William Gordon, July 8, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Major John Joiner Ellis, July 10, 1783
- To George William Fairfax, July 10, 1783 (Excerpts)
- To Robert Stewart, August 10, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To George Martin, August 10, 1783
- Address to the Confederation Congress, August 26, 1783
- To James Duane, September 7, 1783
- To Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau, October 15, 1783 (Excerpt)
- To Armand-Louis de Gontaut Biron, Duc de Lauzun, October 15, 1783 (Excerpt)
- Farewell Orders to the Army of the United States, November 2, 1783
- To the Ministers, Elders, Deacons of the Reformed German Congregation of New York, November 27, 1783
- To the Marine Society of the City of New York, November 29, 1783
- To the Members of the Volunteer Association and Other Inhabitants of the Kingdom of Ireland Who Have Lately Arrived in the City of New York, December 2, 1783
- To the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, December 9, 1783
- To the Merchants of Philadelphia, December 9, 1783
- To the Militia Officers of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, December 12, 1783
- To the Trustees and Faculty of the University of the State of Pennsylvania, December 13, 1783
- To the Learned Professions of Philadelphia, December 13, 1783
- To the American Philosophical Society, December 13, 1783
- Address to the Confederation Congress on Resigning His Commission, December 23, 1783
- Part IV From Soldier to Statesman: 1783–1788
- Index
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- The Political Writings of George WashingtonVolume I: 1754–1788, pp. 272 - 273Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023