A history of the United States . e was suddenlystricken with fever and the command was transferred toGeneral Israel Putnam,- with Generals Sullivan and Stirling 1 Born, 1742; died, 1786. Member of the Rhode Islaud assembly in 1770;joined a military company in 1774; became brigadier general in 1775; majorgeneral in 1776; showed great military talents at Dorchester Heights, Brook-lyn, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown; succeeded Gates inthe South, 1780, and by his strategic skill in opposing Cornwallis and LordRawdon, cleared the South and drove Cornwallis into the position which re
A history of the United States . e was suddenlystricken with fever and the command was transferred toGeneral Israel Putnam,- with Generals Sullivan and Stirling 1 Born, 1742; died, 1786. Member of the Rhode Islaud assembly in 1770;joined a military company in 1774; became brigadier general in 1775; majorgeneral in 1776; showed great military talents at Dorchester Heights, Brook-lyn, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown; succeeded Gates inthe South, 1780, and by his strategic skill in opposing Cornwallis and LordRawdon, cleared the South and drove Cornwallis into the position which re-sulted in the surrender at Yorktown. Washington regarded him as the mostskillful of his generals, and posterity has confirmed this judgment. 2 Born, 1718; died, 1790. A noted ranger in the Indian Wars; served a:Bunker Hill; major general, 1775; commanded in defeat of Long Island,1776, in Highlands of the Hudson, 1777, and in Connecticut, 1778-1779; dis-abled by paralysis, 1779. Famed for fight with wolf, and for other General Nathanael Greene. 116 THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1775 AND 1776. [§ 155 as subordinate officers, and a force of about nine thousand men. 155. Battle of Long Island. — As this position commandedthe city, the British took the natural course of planning anattack from the east. Landing southeast of Brooklyn withabout twenty thousand men, August 22 and 25, Howe pushedone of his divisions by a circuitous route toward the north, forthe purpose of turning the the Americans and makingtheir escape in that direction impossible. In the battle ofLong Island, which ensued, the Americans, having only aboutfive thousand men in the -field, were greatly outnumberedand defeated. Generals Sullivan and Stirling, with about twothousand of their men, were taken prisoners. The remainderof the army fell back and rejoined Putnam within the fortifica-tions. Preparations were at once made for a siege. With theBritish force surrounding Brooklyn on the land side and withAd
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