Manuscripts and Special Collections
Ne C 2606 : Letter from General Sir Henry Clinton, to H.F.C. Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle under Lyne; 3 July 1779
I must refer your Grace to S[ir] Will[iam] Erskine.
I am sorry his health and private affairs obliged
him to leave us, from him you will learn
our situation, our hopes, our fears. 'Tis needless
to complain of the total neglect of us, with what is
sent (when it arrives) we will do the best. We
are told that part of Grant's Corps returns
to us, should that be true we shall be most
thankfull. As I must stay this campaign I
will work my utmost, but nothing can be
expected from an Army above 20,000
men less
than S[ir] W[illiam] Howe had, and Washington
very little diminished in numbers. If this
cursed War continues great alteration must
be made in the conduct of it, the rebel
Fleet is grown so insolent that it braves
