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Extracts.—From the journal of the operations of the fleet under Count de Notes to the

Sixth

Grajfe. Chapter.

THE 5th of August the fleet weighed anchor from St. Domingo,and on the 30th arrived in the bay of Chesapeak. The dispatches ofGenerals Washington and Rochambeau, received by the Count deGraffe, informed him of the situation of their army, and the successwhich the British arms had obtained in Virginia and Maryland. Thefrigate Concorde, by which this intelligence had been conveyed, wassent back to acquaint the above generals that the French fleet, was-ar--rived off Cape Henry.

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Return of the hilled , wounded , and miflihg , of the following corps, frotmthe 28 th of September to the lyth of Odiober, 1781.

ROYAL artillery. 24 rank and file killed; 21 ditto wounded;2. ditto miffing,

Guards. 1 serjeant, 3 rank and file, killed; 1 serjeant, 21 rank and afile, wounded...

Light infantry. 1 lieutenant, 3.serjeants, 24 rank and file, killed; ,3 lieutenants,, 2 serjeants, 1 drummer, 51 rank and file, wounded.

17th regiment. 1, drummer. killed;, 1 serjeant,. 6 rank and file,,wounded.,.

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