A history of the United States . ng Lee to fol-low with all haste. Lees conduct at this time was out-rageous, but there were many men in Congresswho considered him a great military genius, and ret^ires °Washington had to put up with him. Lee delib- across theerately held aloof, hoping that the retreat would Dec^^^^yyediscredit Washington and that he would be ap-pointed to succeed him. Meanwhile, through the expira-tions of enlistments and through desertions, Washingtonsarmy was dwindling away, and when he crossed the Delawarenear Trenton on December 8, he had left only 3000 men. 134 The Americ
A history of the United States . ng Lee to fol-low with all haste. Lees conduct at this time was out-rageous, but there were many men in Congresswho considered him a great military genius, and ret^ires °Washington had to put up with him. Lee delib- across theerately held aloof, hoping that the retreat would Dec^^^^yyediscredit Washington and that he would be ap-pointed to succeed him. Meanwhile, through the expira-tions of enlistments and through desertions, Washingtonsarmy was dwindling away, and when he crossed the Delawarenear Trenton on December 8, he had left only 3000 men. 134 The American Revolution Lee finally crossed the Hudson with the idea of making asuccessful attack on Howe and winning the honors of thecampaign, but fortunately for the American cause he wascaptured by a party of British dragoons at his headquartersnear Morristown, December 13. The British cause seemedtriumphant at last, and Howe The British ^^^^ regarded as aoccupy New modern Csesar who•^^^^^ came and saw and conquered. Lord Percy was. sent to seize Newport, Rhode Island, and that importantseaport remained in the hands of the British until British army now controlled the entire state of NewJersey, and Lord Howe issued broadsides to the peopleinviting them to take the oath of allegiance. Nearly 3000accepted the invitation in New Jersey alone. The Torysentiment was rampant in Philadelphia also and the mem- The Attack on the Center 135 bers of Congress fled in a panic to Baltimore. These arethe times that try mens souls, wrote Tom Paine in TheCrisis, the first of the series of pamphlets which he issuedin support of the patriot cause. The Crisis came fromthe press December 19, when things were at the lowest was widely read by the soldiers and reinspired them withenthusiasm for the cause. The first year of the war was fought mainly in New Eng-land by New England militia, who were enlisted to serveuntil December, 1775, when twenty-six new regi- Washingtonments were raised t
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