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By His Excellency, Brigadier General D.S. Walter, Commander-in-Chief, British Armies in America
To <font color="yellow"><b>Stefan Reuter</b></font id="yellow">, Colonel of the 1st Regiment of Foot
Reposing full confidence in your loyalty, courage and good conduct, I do hereby constitute and appoint you, during pleasure, to be <b><font color="yellow">Brigadier General</font id="yellow"></b> of the Royal North American Corps, taking rank and precedence from the present day. You are, therefore, carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of brigadier general by exercising and well disciplining the inferior officers and men of the said corps, and I do hereby command them to obey you as their brigadier general, and you are to observe and follow all such orders and directions as you shall from time to time receive from me or your superior officers, according to law.
Given under My Hand and Seal at Washington this Seventh day of
May 1814 and the Fifty-fourth year of His Majesty's Reign,
D.S. WALTER</font id="Trebuchet MS">