- unitid
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{"value"=>"277131", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 5517", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Apr. 12, 1778", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1778-04-12"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to President Lawrence [Henry Laurens, York, Penn.]"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. 2 pp. 4o", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"He desires to be employed in some of the light corps which are to be formed; Gen. Washington has expressed a readiness to appoint him, should Congress empower him to choose the officers; the prejudices of his native country do not permit him to serve as engineer under those whom in his own country he would command; he thinks it hard if he must begin the next campaign as soldier in the corps of riflemen, when some of his countrymen lately arrived are made colonels of engineers or inspectors in the infantry; alludes to his zeal and services."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Fleury, François Louis Teisseidre de, Marquis (Valley Forge)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1778
- date_inclusive_end
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1778
- keydate
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1778-04-12
- date_start
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1778-04-12
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1778-04-12