His Excellency Gen.
Washington sent a letter to Col. Miles requesting the riflemen to come to headquarters,
New York, which we all agreed to nemine contra decente,
to march next day.
SOURCE: “Diary of
Lieutenant James McMichael,” William H. Egle, Editor, Pennsylvania
Archives, Second Series, Vol. XV: Journals and Diaries of the War of the
Revolution with Lists of Officers and Soldiers, 1775-1783, p. 197
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