Edited sentence: Four years later, on November 16, 1786, this letter was not submitted for publication with the rest of his letters regarding "The Asgill Affair" of 1782.In doing so he was fully cognisant that he was showing disregard for Article XIV of the Yorktown Articles of Capitulation, which protected Prisoners of War.On May 18, 1782, Washington wrote somewhat impetuously to General Moses Hazen, in Lancaster, countermanding his previous orders and told him to include 'conditional' British officers when selecting one to send to the gallows (in retribution for the murder of Captain Joshua Huddy a few weeks earlier).Those incomplete letters subsequently formed the basis of every account written about the events of 1782, in the following two and a half centuries