No major battles occurred on this date.
But in 1776, in a letter to his nephew, Lund Washington, plantation manager of Mount Vernon, Gen. George Washington writes of his displeasure with the undisciplined conduct and poor battlefield performance of the American militia. Washington blamed the Patriot reliance on the militia as the chief root of his problems in the devastating loss of Long Island and Manhattan to the British.
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But in 1776, in a letter to his nephew, Lund Washington, plantation manager of Mount Vernon, Gen. George Washington writes of his displeasure with the undisciplined conduct and poor battlefield performance of the American militia. Washington blamed the Patriot reliance on the militia as the chief root of his problems in the devastating loss of Long Island and Manhattan to the British.
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