Show W A 8 HI I 1 N N the bey the L lover the soldier and ili ha statesman by F A OBER of thel hir empress josephine josrph tile travels in etc etc c copyright 1817 18 hy by tho the author CHAPTER ns aliz radian POLICY general ilowe iio te wit at the kli display play of vigor in a foo foe lie hal chusid chosid crid beyond the possibility of re recovery after the dailig dai ing adventure advert t tire at huuton Tieu toi lie he sent lord loid i allia to tc cp cap I 1 nl I 1 1 I X r n i I 1 OM ST ture that old fus fox at and on n the of tho the ad of january Januar yI 1777 the tha two avi 0 o armies were opposed with odds in favor of the british Dri tish then I 1 it was tic the old fox showed his superior strategy and lear leaving 1 his lii camp dcamp fires brightly dungins dunlins and pacing at their posts lie slipped off toward and ami go got in th rear of carn wallis vz llis warre lie bagged a detachment na aa already mentioned and thoi slipped clipped off again to tha joisey hills hilla for or the tha tima sale safe tica flom attack again jhc thc british had been outgeneraled rod a second time to revise their plus plans anil and as some the defens he when they had planned to early cany on CD an aa offensive care campaign by his nate strategy washington had flanked cornwallis aud and got between ir 11 i army and aad base of sup sap plies at new brunswick but lie ho had lie not hot strength to lo altree that place and obtain the stores his bis suffering ring soldiers so BO much needed tho the first year of the war had bad witnessed at its close the compulsory evacuation of boston by the british then followed a long series of discouraging rev cise relieved only by the victories cf tronton and Prince princetta toa and so eo the E cond coed year went cut with a gleam of hope for the patriots fighting against every kind of on CaliE tillas morning 1776 the power oi of ill tha brit british asli was felt throughout new kew jersey olid and it was their boast that i ind his winter canton ladi j fmc ito vacie lie ho felt lio lie COO coald id lull I 1 a 4 iolue dome list i rt tile iho approaching bears Bej rs ase taiti b the tha J sei says nays a british n authority utho rily the ir it in chich V washington i I 1 i pur nei 3 at trent treni i thin established bini himself gelf sit nt morristown ro rn as ai to make tiie the wy way to philadelphia impassable all beut fiut t to 0 show that the liber fiber 0 if lna his public ch chr nacter and ad been hardened to its quality ills his chief concern during tile the inaction of tile inter wai wag IGI for the fin 3 american america la in british hards who were most treated and liy by threats of ier isal hn bo nt at last secured scoured i a prom prova iio igo rf nf letter treatment also fave able terms for ex chingo of lonerg and id tire the release of on parole tho the campilii of 1777 1111 opened rn nn attempt by to mcgago washington in zt ducr 1 l hattle w which aich tire cinitis Dif Ci itis superiority of force and equipment wor I 1 I 1 cutely have awe resulted disastrously t tj mins anna cut but ho be cleverly evad evaded d chiq hn maneuver at the same sama tima not his w a ach oil tho the ot of ins his enemy and ready to upon cpin him 1 iia when go 0 1 ty Offe offered led at last coxin convinced that tho the destination cf inglish troops their ihen being embair erab acl at new CIT we was philadelphia wr hington descended from his eyne abid ad 10 aai clied to tile the of that cay his small goico was wholly te to copo mith tha foe but ho to inan managed aged to gild and ins his army 80 days on oil a maich of ices than 50 miss miles abid at tle battle ef cf me it X W ae 1 1 jr lat ty 5 4 ai 0 4 HI idal TI AT CAM Ui bilue luE which followed on oil tile he I 1 alth I 1 tl of be ber ho be to extricate his from a most situation situa tiou with a force of culy cady 11 aga csc the british and ag on nil while his 1 39 opponents thought him completely demoralized from hil biti effat ef eat lie attacked them at germantown with sudi spirit that victory deemed almost within his hia grasp all I 1 ili 1 of ct cu daunted spirit and f quality had made en impression both at home and broad abroad especially clr in ia franco chero our commissioners nErs were trying to a treaty of cf alli auca v alii thiet bation the ilie decisive victory won by general 6 gatea ate nt at saratoga over orr general Bar balgoyne Bargo goyne yae I 1 in n the 19 it of october fad bad the desired desire d effect of ef w the court of france to our side these two brilliant achieve beut contrasted with i small gain gaina A and frequent reverses raised a cabal in the army and congress favorable to s the commander in ill chief by ral gates an intrigue was wag carried cirri pd ou oil not unknown to the ibe former but by liim him magnanimously y fl in point of fact washington burl bad went ened his own comment command and filard hii army in ili jeopardy by the F 1144 RIP 10 17 1 W 47 IL CROSSING TUE THE DELAWARE delabar ti a corporals guard might with safety safely parade in any part of the ll 11 e province by the abo middle ot of iti january nuary following they had ii a from all but two posts and were very much afraid to stir far from them A strange condition of 0 affair had been brought about by which W washington ash ramping Iu strictly a do warfare had his appo denti in such ench a position thit that th it they them elves doali not resume tle the offensive ollen sive with lis handful of raw and ragged troops half starved and poorly armed arrilee lie ha had inet cut some of the best bertot of britain ic eulars aud and had bad inflicted humiliating def defeat 0 at when himself on th the ver very y brink of total dissolution thrice now the british had retired torn and bleeding from tile tha desperate deeper le charges of 0 this lion at bey bay hence bence they bad no heart for further furher experiment and were wera content to go into wilter quarters iu artera and sendal Send sending hl of rp re to tile coith not tb eru ere army and it ats only with the greatest difficulty that thai he be got a 0 hortien cf them back again aft r tho surrender and they were no longer needed there in december after the had bad gono gone into winter vinter quarters qc arters at philadelphia a nent little gimo iu in generalship wai wag played at a called whitemarsh between the american aud british generals the latter mation vering foi fo several days iu vain to gain E ain au an adva over liis his opponent and finally giving up in disgust and ic treating to philador phia without firing scarce scarcely Y a was at that time in a spot 0 of great I 1 natural strength where ho he knew lie he could with safety sustain au all attack and repel it but bot could not hazard au an engagement in the open whither howe endeavored to draw him after this game vf jf military chess he be tool took big army to valley ainge aoi re for their winter Nin ter Callton cantonment ment this little hand band were such that thin period of de end haia lity been 1110 lii osnas 11 Is the time that tried mens souls oak I 1 ITO 10 BE I 1 i |