The battles in the Jerseys and the significance of each . ributed within theAmerican lines. He resolved to hurry towardMorristown with 5,000 men, being in high hopesthat he would be welcomed by deserters and thatwhole companies would throw down their he reckoned without his host; there was some-thing about the American soldier that a Europeanmercenary never could understand. The expedition started from Staten Island andpassed through Elizabethport at Sterling (not to be confused withNew Jerseys hero, Major-General Lord Stirling)was riding at the head of the Brit
The battles in the Jerseys and the significance of each . ributed within theAmerican lines. He resolved to hurry towardMorristown with 5,000 men, being in high hopesthat he would be welcomed by deserters and thatwhole companies would throw down their he reckoned without his host; there was some-thing about the American soldier that a Europeanmercenary never could understand. The expedition started from Staten Island andpassed through Elizabethport at Sterling (not to be confused withNew Jerseys hero, Major-General Lord Stirling)was riding at the head of the British columnthrough Elizabethtown when a minuteman fireda shot which struck Sterling in the thigh andinflicted a mortal wound. The militia under Elias Dayton were veryactive, falling back but offering a resistance ofincreasing vigor. Knyphausen was bitterly disap-pointed ; he halted half a mile from Springfield andcalled a council of war. He saw William Max-wells brigade ready to dispute his passage overthe Rahway river, and on the hills beyond he saw 212. *• the Continental army, This was something differ-ent from co-operating with mutineers, so heencamped and made no attempt to force theAmerican Lines. It was a dark and rainy night,made ill-omened by the boom of alarm gum andby the blaze of signal fires on the distant hills. The British retreat began before daylight. Thechurch and parsonage and other dwellings atConnecticut Farms were burned, and HannahOgden, the wife of Chaplain James Caldwell, wasmurderi d, Enyphausen had been alert and prudent; he wasprompt to Beize the possibility of aid from themutineers, and on reaching Springfield and seeingthe situation, he was wise in not pushing mattersto th«- Issue. - THE BATTLE OF SPRINGFIELD Henry Clinton, having won brilliant victories inthe south, arrived at Staten Island on June , too, looked longingly at Morristown; he, too,cherished the hope of reaping some materialadvantage from the mutinous spirit that wassmolderin
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