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RIEDESEL, Friedrich Adolphus (1738-1800), Major General, Hessian Army . Letter signed ("Riedesel") to GENERAL HORATIO GATES, "Camp near the heights of Behmas's house" [Bemis Heights, near Saratoga], 2 October 1777. 2 pages, folio, endorsed on verso, ...

Auction 10.12.1999
10.12.1999
Schätzpreis
4.000 $ - 6.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
9.775 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 23

RIEDESEL, Friedrich Adolphus (1738-1800), Major General, Hessian Army . Letter signed ("Riedesel") to GENERAL HORATIO GATES, "Camp near the heights of Behmas's house" [Bemis Heights, near Saratoga], 2 October 1777. 2 pages, folio, endorsed on verso, ...

Auction 10.12.1999
10.12.1999
Schätzpreis
4.000 $ - 6.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
9.775 $
Beschreibung:

RIEDESEL, Friedrich Adolphus (1738-1800), Major General, Hessian Army . Letter signed ("Riedesel") to GENERAL HORATIO GATES, "Camp near the heights of Behmas's house" [Bemis Heights, near Saratoga], 2 October 1777. 2 pages, folio, endorsed on verso, separated at center fold, repairs to folds, evenly aged. RARE. ON THE EVE OF THE FINAL SARATOGA BATTLE, RIEDESEL REFUSES A PRISONER EXCHANGE OF GENERAL ETHAN ALLEN A remarkable letter between senior officers of combatant armies, written in the brief lull between the first battle of Freeman's Farm (19 September) and the climactic Battle of Bemis Heights (7 October). Five days before the final defeat of Burgoyne and his Hessian forces, Riedesel negotiates with the American commander on the exchange of prisoners: "Cornet Graffe whom you permitted to come to our Camp for five days, to make me a report of the rounded up Prisoners of the Troops of his Serene Highness the Duke of Brunswick, has informed me, that you were very anxious for the Release of Colonel Ethan Allen, & that you had requested his Excellency General Burgoyne to exchange him for Major Meyborn & Captain Bartling. I should with pleasure do any thing in my power to support your request, but you must, on reflection, be sensible that neither General Burgoyne, or General Clinton can pretend to dispose of a Prisoner, long under the orders of his Excellency Sr. Wm. Howe & who is looked upon as a Prisoner of State not of war. Should you be desirous to exchange our Officers, for an equal Number of your's, who have been made Prisoners of War, I imagine General Burgoyne would consent to such a proposal, & a proper Time and Place may be fixed upon to negotiate this matter." He concludes by requesting that two prisoner of war paymasters be allowed back to the British camps for one month "to settle their Accounts...Cornet Graffe goes back this day...I have desired him to return you my thanks for the great care that has been taken of our wounded." The Vermont patriot Ethan Allen (1738-1789), commander of the Green Mountaion Boys, had been a British prisoner since his capture in a premature attack on Montreal in September 1775. When identified as the commander who had seized Ticonderoga earlier that year, he was sent in chains to England, then later returned to New York and paroled in October 1776. Jailed for a parole violation, he was finally exchanged for Colonel Archibald Campbell in May 1778. Riedesel surrendered with Burgoyne's army on 7 October 1777, and was sent in captivity to Cambridge, Mass. with his wife and three daughters. He was eventually exchanged, along with General William Phillips for General Benjamin Lincoln, who was captured at the fall of Charleston, South Carolina.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 23
Auktion:
Datum:
10.12.1999
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

RIEDESEL, Friedrich Adolphus (1738-1800), Major General, Hessian Army . Letter signed ("Riedesel") to GENERAL HORATIO GATES, "Camp near the heights of Behmas's house" [Bemis Heights, near Saratoga], 2 October 1777. 2 pages, folio, endorsed on verso, separated at center fold, repairs to folds, evenly aged. RARE. ON THE EVE OF THE FINAL SARATOGA BATTLE, RIEDESEL REFUSES A PRISONER EXCHANGE OF GENERAL ETHAN ALLEN A remarkable letter between senior officers of combatant armies, written in the brief lull between the first battle of Freeman's Farm (19 September) and the climactic Battle of Bemis Heights (7 October). Five days before the final defeat of Burgoyne and his Hessian forces, Riedesel negotiates with the American commander on the exchange of prisoners: "Cornet Graffe whom you permitted to come to our Camp for five days, to make me a report of the rounded up Prisoners of the Troops of his Serene Highness the Duke of Brunswick, has informed me, that you were very anxious for the Release of Colonel Ethan Allen, & that you had requested his Excellency General Burgoyne to exchange him for Major Meyborn & Captain Bartling. I should with pleasure do any thing in my power to support your request, but you must, on reflection, be sensible that neither General Burgoyne, or General Clinton can pretend to dispose of a Prisoner, long under the orders of his Excellency Sr. Wm. Howe & who is looked upon as a Prisoner of State not of war. Should you be desirous to exchange our Officers, for an equal Number of your's, who have been made Prisoners of War, I imagine General Burgoyne would consent to such a proposal, & a proper Time and Place may be fixed upon to negotiate this matter." He concludes by requesting that two prisoner of war paymasters be allowed back to the British camps for one month "to settle their Accounts...Cornet Graffe goes back this day...I have desired him to return you my thanks for the great care that has been taken of our wounded." The Vermont patriot Ethan Allen (1738-1789), commander of the Green Mountaion Boys, had been a British prisoner since his capture in a premature attack on Montreal in September 1775. When identified as the commander who had seized Ticonderoga earlier that year, he was sent in chains to England, then later returned to New York and paroled in October 1776. Jailed for a parole violation, he was finally exchanged for Colonel Archibald Campbell in May 1778. Riedesel surrendered with Burgoyne's army on 7 October 1777, and was sent in captivity to Cambridge, Mass. with his wife and three daughters. He was eventually exchanged, along with General William Phillips for General Benjamin Lincoln, who was captured at the fall of Charleston, South Carolina.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 23
Auktion:
Datum:
10.12.1999
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
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