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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 22: (search)
e order was issued was shot in the presence of the whole army drawn up to witness the execution. Opinion among the troops approved the decision, and by degrees the discipline of the southern continental troops became equal to their courage. The campaign was sure to be one of danger and hardship; the firm and adventurous commander gained the confidence and love of his troops by sharing every peril and more than sharing every toil. The country around Charlotte had been ravaged. Sending Kosciuszko in advance to select a site for an encampment, he marched his army to the head of boat navigation on the Pedee. There, in a fertile and unexhausted country, at the falls of the river, he established his camp of repose to improve the discipline and spirits of his men, and to gain for Chap. XXII.} 1780. Dec. himself an opportunity of looking about. Greene had expected new and singular difficulties; but they exceeded all that he had feared. Shoals of militia, kept on foot since the def
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 24: (search)
r his cruelties, fell after the surrender by an unknown hand. Lieutenant-Colonel Brown, the commander, had himself hanged thirteen American prisoners, and delivered citizens of Georgia to the Cherokees to suffer death with all the exquisite tortures which savage barbarity could contrive; but on his way to Savannah an escort protected him from the inhabitants whose houses he had burned, whose Chap. XXIV.} 1781. May 22. relations he had hanged. On the twenty-second of May, Greene, with Kosciuszko for his engineer, and nine hundred and eighty-four men, began the siege of Ninety-Six. The post, though mounting but three pieces of artillery, was strongly fortified; the garrison of five hundred and fifty was ample for the place; and the commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Cruger, was an officer of ability and enterprise. A fleet from Ireland having arrived at Charleston with re-enforcements, Rawdon on the seventh of June marched with two thousand men to the relief June 7. of Ninety-Six.