| Description | Hoped to have been able to send Lord Dartmouth a more pleasing account of our Southern Expedition than is contained in the contained precis, the troops have not suffered from the climate "which I dreaded more than the fire of the Rebels, though that has done no small execution on board the ships, not a man on the quarter deck of Sir Peter Parker's ship at the beginning of the attack that was not either killed or wounded before the end of it", all hopes now fixed on General Howe
Enclosure, Aug 1776, advices received from Sir Peter Parker and Lieutenant General Clinton by the Ranger Sloop, position taken up by Sir Peter Parker opposite the fort on Sullivan's Island
For full description see HMC 14th report available in SRO reading room |