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Title: Washington, the man of action
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hill, Frederick Trevor, 1866-1930 Job, 1858-1931, ill
Subjects: Washington, George, 1732-1799
Publisher: New York, London : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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oint ofattack. Certainly Clinton believedthat the Americans were attemptingto swing around his rear throughStaten Island or Sandy Hook, andevery means was taken to encouragethis delusion; so that the advance-guard of Washingtons hurryingcolumns had already reached theDelaware River before he awoke tothe real peril of the situation. Itwas then too late to think of pur-suit; so Arnold was ordered to 271 WASHINGTON ravage some of the New Englandtowns in the hope of bringingWashington back to their rescue.But the American Commander-in-Chief was not to be swerved fromthe great object he had in view, andbrushing every obstacle aside, heswept down upon Yorktown, ar-riving there on September 28, 1781.Meanwhile,the British and Frenchfleets had been battling for the pos-session of Chesapeake Bay, with theresult that the French vessels heldcommand of the disputed watersand Cornwallis was cut off from allescape by sea, with little or no chance 272 Washington Pleading with Mutinous Soldiers (1782)
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WASHINGTON of fighting his way to safety throughthe ring of steel which was rapidlybeing welded around him on the land.Nevertheless, he pluckily preparedhimself for a stout resistance, and atthe end of a two weeks siege itseemed as though he might beable to hold his ground until theFrench fleet was called from thescene. This was by no means aremote contingency, for de Grassesoon notified Washington that ifthe end was much further delayedhe would not keep his vessels inposition, and to expedite mattersthe Commander-in-Chief ordered 277 WASHINGTON a combined assault on the Britishworks, Alexander Hamilton lead-ing the American detachments andColonel de Deuxponts the French.The movement was brilliantly exe-cuted, and in less than ten minutesthe Americans were swarming overthe redoubts against which they hadbeen hurled, and the French soonachieved a similar success. Thenfollowed an heroic attempt by Corn-walliss men to break through theinvesting lines, which was fiercelyrepulsed, and a sa

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