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Carlisle (search for this): chapter 5
llage of Philadelphia, which it seemed to them most melancholy to desert, would become a magnificent metropolis. The result of their mission was watched with intense interest throughout all Europe, especially at Versailles and in the Netherlands; but the creation of their office was a mere device to aid Lord North in governing the house of Chap. IV.} 1778. commons, and to reconcile the people of England to a continuance of the war. Richard Jackson to Wm. S. Johnson, 30 Nov., 1784, Ms. Carlisle, the first commissioner, had in the house of lords spoken with warmth upon the insolence of the rebels for refusing to treat with the Howes, and had stigmatized the people of America as base and unnatural children of England. The second commissioner was an under-secretary, whose chief, a few weeks before, in the same assembly, had scoffed at congress as a body of vagrants. Suffolk, 11 Dec., 1777, in Almon, x. 119; Burke, III. 372. The third was Johnstone, who had lately in parliament ju
Putnam (search for this): chapter 5
s attack. He was driven out of Boston from his most unmilitary neglect to occupy Dorchester heights which overlook the town. He took his troops in midwinter to the bleak, remote, and then scarcely inhabited Halifax, instead of sailing to Rhode Island, or some convenient nook on Long Island within the Chap. IV.} 1778. sound, where he would have found a milder climate, greater resources, and nearness to the scene of his next campaign. In the summer of 1776, marching by night to attack General Putnam in his lines at Brooklyn, he lost the best chance of success by halting his men for rest and breakfast. When his officers still reported to him that they could easily storm the American intrenchments, he forbade them to make the attempt. His want of vigilance was so great that he let Washington pass a day in collecting boats, and a night and morning in retreating across an arm of the sea, and knew not what was done till he was roused from slumber after sunrise. When with his undivid
Middle Ages (search for this): chapter 5
d down under grievous burdens and evil laws, they had a shelter and acres from which they could not be evicted. The saddest defect in English life was the absence of a class of small freeholders, the class which constituted the Chap. IV.} 1778. May. strength of France, of the most enlightened parts of Germany, and of the states which Great Britain had formed by colonization. In England and Scotland and Ireland, though the property by feudal law was strictly in the tenant, Hallam's Middle Ages, i. 316, ed. 1872. the feudal chiefs had taken to themselves in absolute ownership nearly all the ground; the landless people, dependent in the rural districts on their lords, were never certain of their to-morrow; and the government was controlled by an aristocracy which had no political check but in the crown. On the fourth of May the treaties of commerce 4. and alliance with Louis the Sixteenth were unanimously ratified by congress, with grateful acknowledgments of his magnanimous
Grant (search for this): chapter 5
career with lustre, he resolved by a swift movement to capture the party. At ten on the night of the nineteenth, he sent Grant at the head of fifty-three hundred chosen men, with the best guides, to gain by roundabout ways the rear of Lafayette. T Hill they were to meet the American party after its rout; but they listened in vain for the sound of cannon, and at noon Grant came in sight with only his own detachment. Lafayette had been surprised and his direct communication with Valley Forge cut off; but a lower ford called Matson's, which was nearer to Grant than to him, remained unoccupied. Sending small parties into the woods, to present themselves as the heads of attacking columns, he had deceived his antagonist, and crossed the ford while Grant was preparing to give battle. Wayworn and crestfallen, Howe returned to the city. On the twenty-fourth he gave up to Sir Henry 24. Clinton the command of an army which excelled in discipline, health, and alertness. Of the office
Hallam (search for this): chapter 5
though bowed down under grievous burdens and evil laws, they had a shelter and acres from which they could not be evicted. The saddest defect in English life was the absence of a class of small freeholders, the class which constituted the Chap. IV.} 1778. May. strength of France, of the most enlightened parts of Germany, and of the states which Great Britain had formed by colonization. In England and Scotland and Ireland, though the property by feudal law was strictly in the tenant, Hallam's Middle Ages, i. 316, ed. 1872. the feudal chiefs had taken to themselves in absolute ownership nearly all the ground; the landless people, dependent in the rural districts on their lords, were never certain of their to-morrow; and the government was controlled by an aristocracy which had no political check but in the crown. On the fourth of May the treaties of commerce 4. and alliance with Louis the Sixteenth were unanimously ratified by congress, with grateful acknowledgments of his m
William S. Johnson (search for this): chapter 5
at in a few years the opulent village of Philadelphia, which it seemed to them most melancholy to desert, would become a magnificent metropolis. The result of their mission was watched with intense interest throughout all Europe, especially at Versailles and in the Netherlands; but the creation of their office was a mere device to aid Lord North in governing the house of Chap. IV.} 1778. commons, and to reconcile the people of England to a continuance of the war. Richard Jackson to Wm. S. Johnson, 30 Nov., 1784, Ms. Carlisle, the first commissioner, had in the house of lords spoken with warmth upon the insolence of the rebels for refusing to treat with the Howes, and had stigmatized the people of America as base and unnatural children of England. The second commissioner was an under-secretary, whose chief, a few weeks before, in the same assembly, had scoffed at congress as a body of vagrants. Suffolk, 11 Dec., 1777, in Almon, x. 119; Burke, III. 372. The third was Johnstone,
Greene (search for this): chapter 5
leaving Philadelphia, they would move to the south. But the attempt to mislead Washington was fruitless. In a council on the seventeenth, Lee advised that it would not be safe to attack the British, and carried with him all the officers except Greene, Lafayette, Wayne, and Cadwalader. Unmoved by the apathy of so many, Washington crossed the Delaware sixteen miles above Trenton, and de- Chap. IV.} 1778. June 24. taching Maxwell's brigade of nine hundred to assist a party of a thousand Jerse easily driven back, and showed themselves no more. The regiments of foot came up next; but they could not turn the left flank where Stirling commanded, without exposing their own right to the American artillery. The attack upon the right where Greene commanded was defeated by his battery; while others encountered the grenadiers and guards till they turned and fled. As they rallied and came back to the charge, Wayne with a body of infantry engaged them face to face till they were again repuls
Munchausen (search for this): chapter 5
housand guineas. The tickets of admission described the guest of the night as the setting sun, bright at his going down, but destined to rise in greater glory; and fireworks in dazzling letters promised him immortal laurels. At midnight a supper of four hundred and thirty covers was served under the light of twelve hundred wax candles, and was enlivened by an orchestra of more than one hundred instruments. Dancing continued till the sun 19. was more than an hour high. Ms. Journal of Munchausen, aide-de-camp of General Howe. Never had subordinates given a more brilliant farewell to a departing general: and it was doubly dear to their commander; for it expressed their belief that the ministry had wronged him, and that his own virtue pointed him out for advancement. The festival was hardly over, when Howe was informed that Lafayette, with twenty-five hundred men and eight cannon, had crossed the Schuylkill, and, twelve miles from Valley Forge, had taken a post of observation on
Botta (search for this): chapter 5
etreat. As the narrow road through which the enemy came on was bounded on each side by a morass, he swiftly formed two of the retreating regiments of Wayne's brigade, commanded by Stewart and Ramsay, in front of the pursuers and under their fire; and thus gained time to plant the troops that were advancing with him upon good ground. This being done, he again met Lee, who was doing nothing, like one in a private capacity; and, finding in him no disposition to retrieve his character, When Botta's admirable history of our war of independence was translated into English, John Brooks of Massachusetts, who, on the day at Monmouth, was Lee's aide-de-camp, and on the trial was one of his chief witnesses, very emphatically denied the statement, that Lee had done good service on the field after meeting with Washington. Remarks of John Brooks on the battle of Monmouth; written down by J. Welles. Compare Autograph Memoirs of Lafayette. Steuben: I found General Lee on horseback before a ho
Knyphausen (search for this): chapter 5
re followed the next morning by fifty-seven hundred selected troops, commanded by Howe himself, assisted by Clinton and Knyphausen, with Lord Howe to witness the discomfit of the youthful gen- Chap. IV.} 1778. May 20. eral, whom he was to ship to Eertness. Of the officers who attended him to the place of embarkation, the most gallant shed tears at the parting; and Knyphausen, from deep emotion, could not finish the address which he began in their name. Brave and an adept in military sciencaration. His baggage, which occupied a line of eight miles or more, was sent onward, protected by a strong force under Knyphausen. The division of Cornwallis, and a brigade and a regiment of dragoons from Knyphausen's division, remained behind. AtKnyphausen's division, remained behind. At about eight in the morning Clinton sent against Lee two regiments of cavalry with the grenadiers, guards, and highlanders. Lee should now have ordered a retreat; but he left the largest part of his command to act for themselves, and then expressed
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