CHAPTER III.

General Washington commences his march to the Dela-

ware....He takes measures for checking Burgoyne....

Expedition of general Sullivan against Staten island....

British fleet come up the Chesapeak and land an army

under sir William Howe at Elk river....General Wash-

ington advances to Brandywine....Lord Cornwallis at-

tacks Maxwell's corps and compels them to retreat....

The American army defeated at Brandywine, and re-

treat to Chester....After a slight skirmish compelled

again to retire, cross the Schuylkill and proceed to

French creek....General Wayne surprised, and after a

sharp action compelled to retreat.... Washington marches

to Pottsgrove....General Howe takes possession of Phi-

ladelphia....Congress remove to Lancaster.

CHAPTER IV.

Measures taken to prevent a communication between the

British army in Philadelphia and their fleet....Royal

army attacked at Germantown.... The Americans re-

pulsed....Measures taken by general Washington for

cutting off supplies from Philadelphia....Attack upon

fort Mifflin....Attack upon Red Bank....Colonel Donop

killed, and his party repulsed with considerable loss....

The Augusta frigate blows up....General Washington

takes post at White Marsh....Fort Mifflin evacuated,

and possession taken by the British....Fort Mercer

evacuated....A picket of the enemy attacked and driven

in with loss....The enemy succeed in opening a free

communication with their fleet....Attempt by general

Dickenson to surprise Skinner's brigade.

CHAPTER V.

An inquiry into the conduct of general Schuyler at his

request, which terminates to his honour....Burgoyne

appears before Ticonderoga....Evacuation of Ticonde

roga and Mount Independence....The American army

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evacuate Skeensborough, and retire to fort Anne....

Colonel Warner attacked by general Frazer, and obliged

to retreat....Colonel Long evacuates fort Anne, and

retires to fort Edward....Proclamation of Burgoyne,

and counter proclamation of Schuyler....Burgoyne ap-

proaches fort Edward, and Schuyler retires to Saratoga

....From thence to Stillwater....St. Leger invests fort

Schuyler....Herkemer, advancing to the relief of the

fort, falls into an ambuscade, and is defeated with loss

....Colonel Baum is detached to seize the magazines at

Bennington; is attacked in his intrenchments by gene-

ral Starke, and entirely routed.... Brechman marches to

Baum's aid, is attacked by colonel Warner, and de-

feated....St. Leger abandons the siege of fort Schuyler,

and retires to Ticonderoga....The murder of miss

M'Crea....General Gates takes the command of the

northern army....Burgoyne encamps on the heights of

Saratoga....He attacks Gates at Stillwater....Retreats

to Saratoga....Surrender of the army under Burgoyne

....Forts Montgomery and Clinton taken by the British

....Peck's-Kill, together with forts Independence and

Constitution evacuated by the Americans. Ticonde-

roga and Mount Independence evacuated by the enemy.

CHAPTER VI.

Red bank evacuated....General Howe marches out of Phi-

ladelphia....Skirmishes with the American army....Re-

turns to the city....General Washington goes into winter

quarters at Valley Forge....Defects in the commissary

department....Distress of the American army at Valley

Forge for provisions....Representations of general

Washington to congress on this subject....The army

subsisted in a great measure by impressments....Com-

bination formed in congress against general Washing-

ton....General Gates supposed to be concerned in it....

Correspondence on this subject between the two gene-

rals....Distress of the American army for clothes....

General Washington's exertions to increase his force

and to place it on a respectable footing before the en-

suing campaign....Congress send a committee of their

own body to the army....Attempt to surprise captain

Lee's corps, and the gallant resistance made by him....

Congress determine upon a second expedition against

Canada....Before its execution, it is abandoned.... Gene-

ral Conway resigns....Duel between him and general

Cadwalader.

CHAPTER VII.

Congress forbid the embarkation of the British troops

taken at Saratoga....Burgoyne permitted to depart....

Plan of reconciliation with America agreed to in par-

liament....Communicated to, and rejected by congress....

The resolutions of this body thereupon....Information

received of treaties of alliance and commerce being en-

tered into between France and the United States....The

difficulties which had existed in the cabinet of Versailles

on this subject....Great Britain declares war against

France....The treaties with France ratified by congress

....Complaints made by general Washington of the

treatment of American prisoners in possession of the

enemy....Proceedings of congress on this subject....A

partial exchange of prisoners agreed to.

CHAPTER VIII.

General Lacy surprised....General Howe resigns his com-

mand, and returns to England; is succeeded by sir H.

Clinton.... The British army evacuate Philadelphia, and

march through the Jerseys....Council of war called by

general Washington, decide against attacking the ene-

my on their march.... The opinion of the general against

this decision....He attacks the enemy at Monmouth

court-house....The action severe, but not decisive....

General Lee arrested for his behaviour in this action,

and afterwards to the commander in chief....Court

martial appointed to try him....Sentenced to be sus-

pended from his command for one year....The thanks

of congress presented to general Washington and his

army, for their conduct in the battle at Monmouth.

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CHAPTER IX.

Count D'Estaing arrives on the coast of Virginia with a

French fleet under his command....He meditates an at-

tack on the British fleet at New York, but is obliged to

relinquish it....Sails out to Rhode Island, and arrives off

Newport....Sails to attack lord Howe, who appears off

Rhode Island....General Sullivan lays siege to Newport....

Both fleets dispersed by a storm....D'Estaing returns

to Newport, and against the solicitations of Sullivan,

sails for Boston to refit....In consequence of the depar-

ture of the French fleet, Sullivan raises the siege of

Newport....Action between Sullivan and the British ar-

my....Sullivan retreats with his army to the continent....

Sullivan, in one of his general orders, makes use of ex-

pressions which offend the count....Count D'Estaing ex-

presses to congress his dissatisfaction with general Sul-

livan....General Washington labours to heal these dis-

contents, in which he succeeds....Lord Howe resigns the

command of the British fleet....Colonel Baylor's regiment

surprised....Captain Donop, with his corps, attacked by

colonel Butler, and defeated....Expedition of the British

against Egg Harbour....Pulaski surprised, and his in-

fantry cut off.

CHAPTER X.

Arrival of the British commissioners....Terms of concili-

ation proposed....Answer of congress to these proposi-

tions....Attempts of mr. Johnson to bribe influential

members of congress....Congress order the publication

of the private letters from Johnson to the members of

that body....Manifesto of the commissioners, and counter

manifesto by congress....Arrival of Gerard, minister

plenipotentiary from the king of France....His reception

by congress....Hostilities of the Indians.... Colonel John

Butler, with a party of Indians, breaks into the Wyo-
ming settlement....His treachery to colonel Zebulon
Butler....Kingston besieged by the Indians; surrenders,
and the garrison and inhabitants butchered.... Wilkes-
barre also surrenders, and meets the same fate....Dis-
tresses of the settlers in Wyoming....Colonel Alden
surprised, and with some of his party killed....Colonel
Clarke surprises St. Vincents, and takes possession of
it....Congress determine to attack Canada and the other
British possessions in North America....General Wash-
ington urges reasons against the plan....Has a personal
interview with a committee of congress, and induces
that body to abandon the enterprise.