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LETTERS OF C. AV. BUTTEKFIELD
" Our intentions were frustrated by the arrival of a large body of mounted rangers." Major Rose to Brig. Gen. Irvine, commandant at Fort Pitt, rune 13, 1782. (This Major John Rose was Aid to Crawford, but also Aide-camp of Gen. Irvine, whom the latter had spared to go with Crawford. 'Rose" {a nom-de-phmie) was a Russian, highly skilled in the art of war, nd was afterwards Governor of Livonia. His letter to Irvine was written at Mingo bottom while the troops were crossing the Ohio on the retreat. "After traveling about three miles (from Upper Sandusky towards Lower Sandusky) I met Captain Elliott, a British officer, and about twelve miles further on I met the whole British army composed of Colonel Butler's Rangers." Leith's Narrative,
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