The Writings of George Washington, Volumen6G.P. Putnam' Sons, 1890 |
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affairs appointed arrival attack attention August battle of Brandywine Billingsport brigade British Burgoyne camp campaign chevaux-de-frise circumstances Clinton Colonel command conduct consequences considerable Continental troops corps DEAR SIR defence Delaware detachment effect endeavor enemy enemy's exertions expect expedition favor fleet force Fort Island Fort Mercer Fort Mifflin Fort Montgomery galleys garrison Gates Genl gentlemen give Governor happy HEAD-QUARTERS honor hope Howe's hundred immediately instance intelligence Island Jersey letter Lord Cornwallis loss MAJOR-GENERAL Marquis de Lafayette matter measure ment mentioned Mifflin miles militia morning necessary night North River northern army November o'clock obliged October officers opinion Peekskill Philadelphia possession present PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS prisoners proper Putnam quarter rank reason received Red Bank regiments reinforcements respect Schuylkill sent September ships situation soon Staten Island supplies thing tion Washington WHITEMARSH Wilmington wish wounded yesterday York
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Página 99 - Every account," said he subsequently, in a letter to the President of Congress, "confirms the opinion I at first entertained that our troops retreated at the instant when victory was declaring herself in our favor. The tumult, disorder and even despair which, it seems, had taken place in the British army, were scarcely to be paralleled and, it is said, so strongly did the ideas of a retreat prevail that Chester was fixed on for their rendezvous. I can discover no other cause for not improving this...
Página 484 - Nothing short of independence, it appears to me, can possibly do. A peace on other terms would, if I may be allowed the expression, be a peace of war. The injuries we have received from the British nation were so unprovoked, and have been so great and so many, that they can never be forgotten.
Página 86 - Since the action of the 19th ultimo, the enemy have kept the ground they occupied the morning of that day, and fortified their camp. The advanced sentries of my pickets are posted within shot, and opposite the enemy's. Neither side has given ground an inch. In this situation your Excellency would not wish me to part with the corps the army of General Burgoyne are most afraid of.
Página 279 - Sir, a letter which I received last night contained the following paragraph. "In a letter from General Conway to General Gates, he says, heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it.
Página 122 - To sum up the whole, I have been a slave to the service; I have undergone more than most men are aware of to harmonize so many discordant parts; but it will be impossible for me to be of any further service, if such insuperable difficulties are thrown in my way.
Página 484 - ... we should derive from an unrestricted commerce ; our fidelity as a people, our gratitude, our character as men, are opposed to a coalition with them as subjects, but in case of the last extremity.
Página 364 - The various reports circulated concerning their contents ' were perhaps so many arguments for making them speak for themselves, to place the matter upon the footing of certainty. Concealment in an affair, which had made so much noise, though not by my means, will naturally lead men to conjecture the worst ; and it will be a subject of speculation even to candor itself. The anxiety and jealousy you apprehended from revealing the letter, will be very apt to be increased by suppressing it.
Página 257 - I am now convinced beyond a doubt, that, unless some great and capital change suddenly takes in that line, this army must inevitably be reduced to one or other of these three things ; starve, dissolve, or disperse in order to obtain subsistence in the best manner they can.
Página 260 - ... houses on the same account,) we have, by a field-return this day made, no less than two thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight men in camp unfit for duty, because they are barefoot and otherwise naked. By the same return it appears that our whole strength in Continental troops, including the eastern brigades, which have joined us since the surrender of General Burgoyne, exclusive of the Maryland troops sent to "Wilmington, amounts...
Página 261 - those gentlemen that it is a much easier, and less dis"tressing, thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable "room, by a good fire-side, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, "and sleep under frost and snow,without clothes or blankets."* * Writings, vol.