Henry Knox To William Knox Reporting That The British Have Left Philadelphia 25 June 1778

Reports that the British left Philadelphia. He and Lucy went into the city, but had to leave because it stunk so abominably. Notes that the American and British armies are twenty miles apart, at Princeton and Allentown respectively. Comments on the great number of deserters in the British army. Writes, if General Actions had no other consequences than merely the kill'd and wounded, we should attack them in 24 hours, but the fate of posterity and not the illusive [sic] [brilliancy] of military Glory govern's our [Fabian] Commander, the Man under God to whom America owes her present prospects of peace and happiness.