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Head Quarters, August 31, 1776.
(Parole, America.) (Countersign, Liberty.)
The officers and soldiers may be satisfied that the General
has left no means in his power unattempted to procure
medicine and every comfort for the sick.
The Director of the General Hospital in this department,
Doctor Stringer, was sent to New York three and thirty
days ago, with positive orders to return the instant he had
provided the drugs and medicines so much wanted. Since
then, repeated letters have been wrote to New York and
Philadelphia, setting forth, in the strongest terms, the pressing necessity of an immediate supply of these articles.
The General is credibly informed that a Principal Surgeon from the General Hospital at New York, has been
despatched from thence above a fortnight ago, with a supply
of medicines, and apprehends that the badness of the weather
and roads has alone prevented his arrival.
It is the soldier' s duty to maintain the post he is ordered
to defend. The same climate and season that affects us
affects our enemies; and the favour of the Almighty, to whom
The General recommends it to the Surgeons of the different Regiments to communicate to each other the state of
the sick in their respective corps, the various diseases, the
remedies principally wanted, and the comforts most in request; for he will leave nothing unattempted in his power to
provide whatever he can command for their recovery.
The General also desires the Medical Gentlemen will
consult upon and adopt the most proper measures for obtaining those salutary purposes.
General Orders, by General Gates, Head-Quarters, Ticonderoga, August 23 to September 2
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we have appealed, will, if we trust in Him, preserve us from
slavery and death.