The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . y,wretchedly furnished and daily diminishing, had retreated before anexultant foe; food, clothing, and artillery were all wanting. Thepecuniary resources and public credit of the continental congress werefailing, and all the future seemed dark. At that moment intelligencecame that Colonel St. Lcger, who had been sent up the St. Lawrence byBurgoyne, with instructions to cross Lake Ontario to Oswego, penetrate THE HUDSON. 105 tlie Mohawk valley from that point, form an alliance with the Tories antlIndians, and press forward to Albany with destructive
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . y,wretchedly furnished and daily diminishing, had retreated before anexultant foe; food, clothing, and artillery were all wanting. Thepecuniary resources and public credit of the continental congress werefailing, and all the future seemed dark. At that moment intelligencecame that Colonel St. Lcger, who had been sent up the St. Lawrence byBurgoyne, with instructions to cross Lake Ontario to Oswego, penetrate THE HUDSON. 105 tlie Mohawk valley from that point, form an alliance with the Tories antlIndians, and press forward to Albany with destructive energy, had actuallyappeared before Port Schuyler, where the village of Eome now people of the Mohawk valley were wild with consternation, and sentswift messengers to General Schuyler, imploring immediate prudent foresight and far-reaching humanity of that officer at oncedictated his course. He called a council of officers at his quarters, andproposed sending a detachment immediately to the relief of Port
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