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ARMSTRONG TO HARRISON War Department 18 April 1813. Sir, Enclosed is an order recalling Brigadier General McArthur to the discharge of the duties to which he had been specially assigned by this Department. Letters from Fort Meigs of the 9th. instant have been received from Major Stoddard. The enemies parties besetting the approaches to the fort have been small, and might have been chastised had the detachment sent in pursuit of them been larger. When your whole force is collected, it would be desirable that Colo. Proctor should make an attempt to dislodge or to ihvest you. He can neither bring into the field, nor keep in it -- more than two thousand effectives. The regular force sent to him from the Niagara, and arriving after his defeat of General Winchester, did not exceed the number he lost in that affair. His field train consists of six or eight six pounders. I am Sir, with great respect, your most obedient servant J. Armstrong Major General Harrison 93 |
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