GATES, Horatio, Continental General. Letter signed ("Horatio Gates President") as President of the Board of War, TO GEORGE CLINTON, GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK, War Office [York, Penn.], 5 March 1778. 1 page, small folio, endorsed on verso, minor spotting, slight fold tear, otherwise fine. A FRENCH OFFICER AND FORTIFICATIONS OF THE HUDSON. Only weeks after the exposure of the Conway Cabal and his attempt to undermine Washington's command, Gates responds to complaints from General Clinton and General Putnam concerning Colonel Louis la Radiere, the French engineer engaged in works for the Hudson Highland defences: "...A member of the Board too has been a witness to the inefficacy of the endeavours of Col. la Radiere...to raise the works they had judiciously planned. And the Board are thoroughly convinced that if the acutal construction of the works on the North River, be left to Col. la Radiere, they will not be completed till the next campaign is ended, altho' 5000 men should be at his direction...The Board desire your Excellency to employ that engineer, as far as you shall find him really useful, & no farther. We could wish to avoid offence to any foreigners who have interested themselves in our cause; we would treat them with all possible respect: But we must not sacrifice, or hazard our safety, from a point of delicacy."La Radiere was assigned to design and construct the network of redoubts, forts and garrisons in the Hudson Highlands, mainly in the West Point area.

GATES, Horatio, Continental General. Letter signed ("Horatio Gates President") as President of the Board of War, TO GEORGE CLINTON, GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK, War Office [York, Penn.], 5 March 1778. 1 page, small folio, endorsed on verso, minor spotting, slight fold tear, otherwise fine. A FRENCH OFFICER AND FORTIFICATIONS OF THE HUDSON. Only weeks after the exposure of the Conway Cabal and his attempt to undermine Washington's command, Gates responds to complaints from General Clinton and General Putnam concerning Colonel Louis la Radiere, the French engineer engaged in works for the Hudson Highland defences: "...A member of the Board too has been a witness to the inefficacy of the endeavours of Col. la Radiere...to raise the works they had judiciously planned. And the Board are thoroughly convinced that if the acutal construction of the works on the North River, be left to Col. la Radiere, they will not be completed till the next campaign is ended, altho' 5000 men should be at his direction...The Board desire your Excellency to employ that engineer, as far as you shall find him really useful, & no farther. We could wish to avoid offence to any foreigners who have interested themselves in our cause; we would treat them with all possible respect: But we must not sacrifice, or hazard our safety, from a point of delicacy." La Radiere was assigned to design and construct the network of redoubts, forts and garrisons in the Hudson Highlands, mainly in the West Point area.

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GATES, Horatio, Continental General. Letter signed ("Horatio Gates President") as President of the Board of War, TO GEORGE CLINTON, GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK, War Office [York, Penn.], 5 March 1778. 1 page, small folio, endorsed on verso, minor spotting, slight fold tear, otherwise fine. A FRENCH OFFICER AND FORTIFICATIONS OF THE HUDSON. Only weeks after the exposure of the Conway Cabal and his attempt to undermine Washington's command, Gates responds to complaints from General Clinton and General Putnam concerning Colonel Louis la Radiere, the French engineer engaged in works for the Hudson Highland defences: "...A member of the Board too has been a witness to the inefficacy of the endeavours of Col. la Radiere...to raise the works they had judiciously planned. And the Board are thoroughly convinced that if the acutal construction of the works on the North River, be left to Col. la Radiere, they will not be completed till the next campaign is ended, altho' 5000 men should be at his direction...The Board desire your Excellency to employ that engineer, as far as you shall find him really useful, & no farther. We could wish to avoid offence to any foreigners who have interested themselves in our cause; we would treat them with all possible respect: But we must not sacrifice, or hazard our safety, from a point of delicacy."

La Radiere was assigned to design and construct the network of redoubts, forts and garrisons in the Hudson Highlands, mainly in the West Point area.