Yorktown, Aug. 2, 1781.

DEAR CHARLES,
...After a passage of four days we landed here and at Gloucester without opposition. The position is bad, and of course we want more troops, and you know that every senior general takes without remorse from a junior, and tells him that he has nothing to fear....

Yours most, sincerely,
CORNWALLIS.

[Source: Charles, Marquis Cornwallis, The Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis, 2d ed. Ed. Charles Derek Ross. 3 vols. (London: J. Murray, 1859), 1:112-113.]