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Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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isasters, were greatly cheered. A lull of several weeks followed, duringwhich the Americans suffered greatly fromsickness. They were without proper hospi-tal accommodations, and they lay about inalmost every barn, stable, shed, and evenunder the fences and bushes. W^ashingtons Skillful Tactics. Howe now began to move his army to-wards Long Island Sound, for the purpose ofmarching across the mainland to the Hudsonand cutting off the retreat of Washingtonfrom Manhattan Island, and at the same timesent his fleet up the Hudson. His intentionwas understood by Washington, who left threethousand men to defend Fort Washington,and with the main body of his army fell backto the line of the Bronx, near the village ofWhite Plains. Here he was attacked on thetwenty-eighth of October by General Howe,who was advancing from the direction ofNew Rochelle, and who was still hopeful ofgaining the American rear. A spirited en-counier ensued, in which each party lost^bout four hundred men 5 and the British
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396 THE DECLARATION OF t-^>epENppNCE REAP TO THE ARMY, THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. 397 intrenched themselves in front of the Ameri-can position. Apprehensive of an effort on the part of theenemy to storm his Hne, Washington causedthe troops to spend the night in strengthen-ing the rude works which covered it. Theylabored with such diligence that the nextmorning the British commander decided thatthe line was too strong to be attacked,and determined to wait for reinforcements.That night Washington silently abandonedhis lines at White Plains, and withdrew to the heights of North Castle, five miles dis-tant. Howe, unwilling to follow him further,marched to Dobbs Ferry, on the Hudson,and encamped. British Successes. This movement of the British commandercaused Washington to fear that he meant tocross over into New Jersey. He accordinglymade a new disposition of his forces to meetany emergency. General Charles Lee, whohad recently returned from the South, wasleft at North Castle with

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