GEOFFREY CRAYON EDITION

LIFE

OF

GEORGE WASHINGTON

BY

WASHINGTON IRVING

IN FIVE VOLS.

VOL. II

(1856)

NEW YORK

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

27 AND 29 WEST 23D STREET

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STAATS
G.CLIOTHEK
MUENCHEN

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by
G. P. PUTNAM AND CO.,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

CHAPTER I.

Washington takes command of the Armies.-Sketch of General Lee.

-Characters of the British Commanders, Howe, Clinton, and

Burgoyne.-Survey of the Camps from Prospect Hill.-The

Camps contrasted.-Description of the Revolutionary Army.-

Rhode Island Troops.-Character of General Greene.--Washing-

ton represents the Deficiencies of the Army.-His Apology for

the Massachusetts Troops.-Governor Trumbull.-Cragie House,

Washington's Head-quarters....

CHAPTER II.

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Questions of Military Rank.-Popularity of Putnam.-Arrangements

at Head-quarters.-Colonel Mifflin and John Trumbull, Aides-

de-camp.-Joseph Reed, Washington's Secretary and Confiden-

tial Friend.-Gates as Adjutant-general.-Hazardous Situation

of the Army.-Strengthening of the Defenses.-Efficiency of

Putnam.-Rapid Changes.-New Distribution of the Forces.-

Rigid Discipline.-Lee and his Cane.-His Idea as to strong

Battalions.-Arrival of Rifle Companies.-Daniel Morgan and

his Sharpshooters.-Washington declines to detach Troops to

Distant Points for their Protection.-His Reasons for so doing.. 36

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