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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC00496.091 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to 1782 |
| Title | Resolution: instructions to Commander in Chief to retaliate to any acts of cruelty or violence that violate the laws of war |
| Date | 8 November 1782 |
| Author | United States in Congress Assembled |
| Additional authors | Thomson, Charles (1729-1824) |
| Document Type | Legal document; Military document |
| Content Description | Resolved Motion of Congress instructing Commander in Chief to engage British Commander at New York, investigate the murder of Captain Huddy, and " Be it declared and is hereby declared that the Commander in Chief or the Commander of a Separate Army is in virtue of the powers invested in them respectedly [sic] fully authorized and impowered whenever the Enemy shall Committ [sic] any act of Cruelty or Violence contrary to the Laws or Usages of War to demand adequate Satisfaction for the same, and in Case such satisfaction shall not be given in a Reasonable or limited time or shall be referred or Evaded under any pretense whatever to cause Suitable Retaliation to be forthwith made, and the United States in Congress assembled will support them in such measures". |
| Subjects | Revolutionary War Military History Atrocity President Congress Global History and Civics |
| People | Thomson, Charles (1729-1824) |
| Place written | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Theme | The American Revolution |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |
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