Note 725 — Chapter IV
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After Germain had written out Howe's orders, he left them to be "fair copied", and went to Kent on a visit, forgetting on his return to sign them; consequently they were pigeon-holed till May 18th, and did not reach Howe till August 16th, after he had left New York upon his expedition to the Chesapeake, and when it was too late to effect a junction with Burgoyne. Cf. Fitzmaurice's Shelburne, i. 358; Fonblanque's Burgoyne (p. 233); Jones's N. Y. during the Revolution, i. App. p. 696.—Ed.