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Title: The life of George Washington ...
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Bancroft, Aaron, 1755-1839
Subjects: Washington, George, 1732-1799
Publisher: Boston, Phillips & Sampson
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r the orncers. The repeated remonstrances of General Washing-ton, supported bv the chastisements of experience, 17^0.J LIFE OF WASHINGTON. 223 finally induced Congress to lay aside their jealousy cfa .standing army, and to adopt a military establishment for tne war. The expected superiority of the French at sea fail-ing, the residue of the campaign passed away withoutany remarkable event. The hostile armies merelywatched each others motions, until the inclemencyof the season forced them into winter quarters. ThePennsylvania line wintered at Morristown ; the Jerseyline about Pompton on the confines of New-York andNew-Jersey ; and the troops belonging to the New-England Si ates at West Point and its vicinity, on bothsides of the Norfh river. The New-fork line had picvinusly been stationed at Albany, to oppose any mvasion that might be made from Canada, and here it reniained through the winter. B»» OF ™>l.CBS I. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. L— ASTOR, LENOX ANDTILDEN FOUNDATIONS.
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rap LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE American gtrtng, THROUGH THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR;AND THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. BY AARON BANCROFT, D. D. PASTCR OF A CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN WORCESTER TWO VOLUMES IN ONE. BOSTON: PHILLIPS & SAMPSON,110 Washington Street. 1848. I ; ! i i!II ! THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY or ASTOR, LENOX ANDTILDEN FOUNDATIONS 1900. «* Entered according to Act of Congress!, in the year 1S47, hy PHiLLIPS & SAMPSON,T\ the CU-as Office of the District Court of Massachusetts, CONTENTS, CHAPTER VIII Arnold is appointed a Brigadier in the British service,and invades Virginia—Plan to capture him—Mutinyin the Amerioan camp—Violence of the Pennsylva-nia Line—Order restored—Weak state of the Ar-my—The French Court grants a Loan to the UnitedStates—Exertion of the States to enable the Gene-ral to open the Campaign—The French Troopsmarch to the American Camp—Plan to surprise theBritish Post at Kings Bridge—Expedition t

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