An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . ir lines. The energy with which they had niaintained theirground, nnd the kss of six hundred men sustained by the alreadyreduced British force, gave this affair the character of a triumph;while It heightened the gloom which surrounded Burgoyne, who nowdeteriiiined to pause, and fortify hinrjself in his present position. Onthe 3d October, fifteen hundred men, sent out to forage and
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . ir lines. The energy with which they had niaintained theirground, nnd the kss of six hundred men sustained by the alreadyreduced British force, gave this affair the character of a triumph;while It heightened the gloom which surrounded Burgoyne, who nowdeteriiiined to pause, and fortify hinrjself in his present position. Onthe 3d October, fifteen hundred men, sent out to forage and recon-noitre, rashly advanced to Bemiss Heights, within half a mile of theAmerican intrenchments, when the daring Arnold instantly salliedout, attacked, and drove themi back to their camp. The whole Ame-rican army then followed and commenced a most furious assault onthe lines. From the British quarter they were repulsed ; but theGerman intrenchments were carried, two hundred prisoners taken,and Breyman with several leading officers killed or wounded. Afterthis disaster Burgoyne was compelled to fall back upon had been impelled forward by the belief that Howe with 2 H 2 366 CAMPAIGN OF ARNOLD AT BBMISS H E I 1 v his whole army was waiting for him on the Hudson, probably atAlbany ; and having been kept ignorant of that commanders totalchange of destination, while his attempts at communication were in-terrupted by the Americans, he remained still in the dark on thissubject. A letter from him, however, reached New York, wheroClinton had been left with a force barely sufficient to maintain thiposition, and without any instructions to co-operate with Burgoyne ,so that the intelligence from that general, though so fully to be ex-pected, fe^ms to have fallen upon him like a thunderbolt. Being and active officer, he assembled three thousand men, andbeo-iin a brisk movement up the Hudson. Meantime, the forts ofClinton and Montgomery, which, on o
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