Works, Volumen36G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1857 |
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advance affairs aide-de-camp alarm Albany American arms army Arnold arrived artillery attack baggage battle brave bridge brigade British Brunswick Burgoyne Burgoyne's camp captured Clair Colonel command conduct Congress Cornwallis Creek Delaware detachment division encamped endeavored enemy enemy's eral fire flank fleet force Ford Fort Edward Fort Independence Fort Mifflin Fort Montgomery forts garrison Gates George Clinton give Governor guard Hampshire Grants harass Hessian Highlands Hill horse Hudson hundred Indians ington Jerseys Lake land Leger letter Lord Rawdon main body Major-General ment miles military militia Miss McCrea Mohawk Mohawk River morning Morristown movement night Northern department officers ordered parties passed Peekskill Philadelphia Princeton prisoners Putnam quarters rear received reconnoiter regiment reinforcements retreat Riedesel riflemen river road Schuyler sent side Sir Henry Clinton Sir William Skenesborough soon spirit Sullivan Ticonderoga tion Trenton troops Tryon County Washington Wayne woods wounded writes York
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Página 188 - Could we be so happy as to cut one of them off, though it should not exceed four, five, or six hundred men, it would inspirit the people and do away much of their present anxiety. In such an event they would lose sight of past misfortunes, and urged at the same time by a regard for their own security, they would fly to arms and afford every aid in their power.
Página 361 - I was ready to believe," writes Burgoyne " (for I had experience), that patience and fortitude, in a supreme degree, were to be found, as well as every other virtue, under the most tender forms, I was astonished at this proposal. After so long an agitation of spirits, exhausted not only for want of rest, but absolutely want of food, drenched in rains for twelve hours together, that a woman should be capable of such an undertaking as delivering herself to the enemy, probably in the night, and uncertain...
Página 192 - Washington highly approved of a measure suggested by Schuyler, of stationing a body of troops somewhere about the Hampshire Grants (Vermont), so as to be in the rear or on the flank of Burgoyne, should he advance. It would make the latter, he said, very circumspect in his advances, if it did not entirely prevent them.
Página 165 - We should never despair. Our situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth neiv exertions, and proportion our efforts to the -exigency of the times" His spirit of candor and moderation is evinced in another letter.
Página 91 - Island, advising him not to take any hasty step in consequence, but to allow time for recollection, promising his own endeavors to remedy any error that might have been made. He wrote also to Henry Lee in Congress, inquiring whether the omission was owing to accident or design. " Surely," said he, " a more active, a more spirited, and sensible officer, fills no department of your army.
Página 276 - I would not be conscious of the acts you " presume to impute to me, for the whole continent of America, " though the wealth of worlds was in its bowels and a paradise
Página 30 - Your summons, as you did not attempt to fulfil your threats, was not only idle but farcical, and will not fail of turning the laugh exceedingly upon us.
Página 30 - ... the extraordinary spectacle of a powerful army straitened within narrow limits by the phantom of a military force, and never permitted to transgress those limits with impunity...
Página 311 - The great bulk of the country is undoubtedly with the Congress in principle and zeal," writes he, " and their measures are executed with a secrecy and despatch that are not to be equalled. Wherever the king's forces point, militia, to the amount of three or four thousand, assemble in twenty-four hours : they bring with them their subsistence, fyc., and, the alarm over, they return to their farms.
Página 33 - Bmcrica 41 of the troops ; the river Hudson opens a way into the heart of the provinces, and nothing can, in all probability, prevent an early and offensive campaign. What the Americans have done is, in their circumstances, truly astonishing ; it is indeed infinitely more than I expected from them. But, having done so much for some short time, I began to entertain an opinion that they might do more.