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George Washington: “In order that you may be fully informed of the situation of the frontiers and the prospect of hostility in that quarter…”

On the recordJanuary 26, 1791
In order that you may be fully informed of the situation of the frontiers and the prospect of hostility in that quarter, I lay before you the intelligence of some recent depredations, received since my message to you upon this subject of the 24th instant.
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George Washington
Independent · Virginia

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