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Show Brltlnh risct Arrive In Net York Har-bor Har-bor arid Hov Takis Posf jslpn of Staten Inlaw? Washington r.ctroati Acros the Eflpt River After a Bitter Def:?t on Brooklyn Heights Withdraws from Manhattan IMarui, Flqlitlnn as He Mcvfd (jcner.il Charlcn Leo Captured. (Copyright. ISPS, by fliirper ft Btithrs. All light roffcn-ctl ) fCop right. IU13. by the McClur News-popor News-popor Syndicate.) T.O STRENGTH of will, howover. ' ronld ruffice to hold New Vork and its open harbor nnlnet a powerful pow-erful enemy with such troops a? Washington could drill and make btivcn April and .foiy On thA 2Sth of June British transports beg.in '9 gather m the lower bay. With-' In a few day they had brought 30.000 men. arimd and equipped a? no other army had'-ver been in America. BRITISH HOJjD STATBN It wat Impossible to prevent their landing, land-ing, and fhev werft allowed to tak? pob-3cs1on pob-3cs1on of Staten Island unopposed. 2In-of-war pafr-cd untoucha through tho Narrows znu mado their way at will up th broad Hudbon unhurt by the hzttftrleH upon either shore. General Howe reniemhrcd Dorchester and Cliarlestown Helghtn and directed his flr?t movement against Waphlnslon's Intrenched position on the hills of Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, where ciute half the American army lay. For a little space h waited, till his brother. Admiral L-ord Howe, should com to net wuh him in negotiation and command. com-mand. LORD HOWE OFFERS PARDON. Lord Howe was authorized to offer pardon par-don for submission and very honorably used a month and more of qood fighting fight-ing lime tn learning that tho ooloniata had no drsire to b- pardoned. "So doubt wn all need pardon from heaven for our manifold sins ami transgressions." was Governor Trumbull's Connecticut vernlon of the general feeling, "but the A merlon mer-lon n who aeeds the pardon of his Britannia Brit-annia majesty Is yet to be- found." On AUK!:ist 21', accordingly, General Howo put 20,000 men ashore at Gravn-'Scnd Gravn-'Scnd Bay. BRITISH DRIVE THE COLONISTS. Or. tho 27th, his arrangements for an overwhelming attack succeeding at every point, he drpve the 5000 Americans thrown out to oppose him back into their works upon the heights, with a Iofh of 400 killed and wounded and a thousand taken. Still mindful of Bunker's Hill, he would not Htorm the intrenchments. to which Washington himself had brought reinforcements rein-forcements which swelled his strength upon the heights to 1A00O. 'Ho determined. deter-mined. Instead, to draw lines' of siege about them, and at his leisure take army, position, stores and all. Washington, seeing at once what Tlowe Intended, and how possible it was, decided de-cided to withdraw Immediately, before a fleet nhould bo in the river and his retreat re-treat cut off. ; It was a masterly piece of work. The British commander was as much astounded as-tounded to see Brooklyn Heights empty on the morning of August .'10 aa he had been to see Dorchester Holghts occupied that memorable morning six months bc- vashlnglon had taken 10,000 men across that broad river, with all their stores and arms, In a single night, while a small guard kept up a sharp flro from thf breastworks, and no sound of the retreat re-treat reached the dull ears or the British sen trios. WASHINGTON'S ARMY DEMORALIZED. DEMORAL-IZED. But the sharp fighting and bitter defeat de-feat of tho 27th had sadly, even shamefully, shame-fully, demoralized Washington s ra-v troops, and hn knew he must withdraw from New York. All through September and a part or October ho hold what he could of the Island, fighting for il almost mile by mile as he withdrew now cut to the quick and aflame with almost uncontrollable uncon-trollable angor to see what cowards his men could be; again heartened to see them stand and hold their ground, like men, even in tho open. The most that ho could do was to check and thwart tho powerful army pressing steadily upon his front and the free fleet threatening his flanks. A DISTRESSING SETBACK. He repulsed the enemy at Harlem Heights (September 16); ho kept his ground before them at White Plains, despite the loss of an outpost at Chat-terton Chat-terton I J III (October 2S): he might pos-siblv pos-siblv have tolled and harassed them the winter through had not. General Greene suffered a garrison of three thousand thou-sand of the best-trained men In the army to be penned up and taken with a great store of artillery and small arms besides. In Fori Washington, on the Island Is-land (November 1C). After such a blow there was nothing fo: :t i) :t to abiidon V:n Hjdeou nd rtrrat thlOUgM .Vwr Jriie. DARK DAYS FOR PATRIOTS. Mis gnralp growing insubordinate, WathIngton could not vin collect hln division and unite hia forces In rrtrnaL rlln mm dpperlod by tne toore; wholft companlrt took ihir wav homownrd a their tennK or onllntint-nt. expired with the clonlnc of th ear: )ai3y lhrtr InouAAiid inpit trmmlncd with hhn bv the time he had miched Princeton. Congress. In lu fright, removed to Baltimore; Bal-timore; hundreds of persona hurried to takr the oath of allegiance upon Howo's offer of pardon; and the British command-' crs deemed thft rebellion at an end. They did not understand. lh man fhey were lighting. Wien ho had put the brod Drl?.warr between hi dwindling resbnents and the British at his heels, he F.topped, undaunted, undaunt-ed, to colleot fore and give his onpo-nents onpo-nents a taste of his qualt. Such an eTtlaencv only .-stiffened his temper, and added a touch of darlnsr to his rplrit. LEE'S FIASCO AND CAPTURE. Charlea Le, j,lr; r.end in command, hoping to mako some stroke for blmsMf upon the Hudson, had withheld full half tho army in a pa.f post upon the river. In direct disobedience to orders. wlUH the BritlFh drove Wnfliington GouUnvard through New Jersey; but L -nraa now happily in the hand oi the enemy, ta-kon ta-kon at an unguarded tavorn whore h lodged, and most of lhs troops h had withheld found their ay at last to "Washington beyond thv Delaware. Desperate offorts at recruiting wer made. "Washington strained hl authorltv to the utmost to keep and equip his force, and excused himself to congress very nobly. "A character to loar." he f-ald, "an estate to forfeit, the Inestimable blessing of llbcrtv at stake, and a lift devoted mual be my oxciiae." What ho planned and did won him a character with his foes. Before tho year wag out ho had collected col-lected C00n men. nnd was rcadv to strike a. blow at tho weak, extended line Hessian Hes-sian tnrconaiIefl for tho most part whlru Howe hal left to hold the Delaware. |
