From [Peter Allaire]
AL: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
<London, August 26, 1777: He reports intelligence, gathered
from one of Germain’s secretaries, about Howe’s and Burgoyne’s
forces, the impact in England of the Battle of Trenton
and of the capture of the Fox, friction between North and Germain,
public puzzlement at the number of officers returning
from America, and the likelihood of an insurrection in Britain.
Gen. Prescott is undoubtedly a prisoner, and the fall of Ticonderoga
is unconfirmed; Capt. Manley has been taken in the
Hancock. Signed, “An American whom You have seen at Paris.”>
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