History Of The United States From The Earliest Discovery Of America To The End Of 1902 Volume 1 Primary Source Edition

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Excerpt from History of the United States From the Earliest Discovery of America to the End of 1902, Vol. 4 The North conducted the war upon three great lines of campaign: 1. The Western campaigns, to clear the Missis sippi River and thus divide the Confed eracy. 2. The campaigns in the centre, to reach the sea at Mobile, Savannah, or Charleston, cutting the Confederacy a sec ond time. 3. The Eastern campaigns, to take Richmond, and capture or destroy the main Confederate army, ending the Con federacy. This chapter deals with the Western campaigns alone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...hundred men. Early in the morn-ing of the sixteenth of July, General Wayne, with about twelve hundred light infantry, carried the fortress with the bayonet without firing a gun and with a loss of only ninety-eight in killed and wounded--one of the most brilliant exploits of the war. Clinton soon again ascended the river with a large force and the Americans evacuated Stony Point which was reoccupied by the British. In the same month, Massachusetts, with some assistance from congress and New Hampshire, sent an expedition against the British post at the site of Castine, Maine; August saw the total failure of the venture. On the night of the nineteenth of August, Major Henry Lee, "Light Horse Harry," stormed Paulus Hook where Jersey City now stands and killed or captured more than two hundred of the enemy. Washington's army spent the MaP of the Expedition winter of 1779--80 at Morristown, fighting cold, naked-ness, and famine as they had done at Valley Forge although there was an abundance of food in the country. The year 1780 was not marked by more important military operations in the North than 1779 had been. In the intervening winter, Sir Henry Clinton had sailed southward as related in the preceding chapter. On the sixth of June, Knyphausen crossed from Staten Island to New Jersey with about five thousand troops and, before Paulus Hook Knyphausen's Advance into New Jersey 780 daylight, pushed on toward Elizabethtown. He had heard of the mutinous spirit bred by famine in the American army and had misinterpreted its meaning t" and probable effect. On the seven-mile march from Elizabethtown to Connec ticut Farms, the New Jer% sey militia appeared as if JL by magic, single riflemen I firing upon the British column from behind...