New school history of the United States . As the time passed by, he mut-tered : They will never do it! They will never doit! About 2 oclock in the afternoon, a loud hurrahcame from below, and the boy shouted, Ring!Ring ! A merry peal rang out, announcing Liber-ty through all the land, unto all the inhabitants there-of. Such was the inscription on the bell. The royalarms were torn down, and burnt in [he street. Bon-fires were kindled, and the houses illuminated. In NewYork, the leaden statue of George III. was thrownover, cut into pieces, and melted into bullets. In Bos-ton, the Declaration was
New school history of the United States . As the time passed by, he mut-tered : They will never do it! They will never doit! About 2 oclock in the afternoon, a loud hurrahcame from below, and the boy shouted, Ring!Ring ! A merry peal rang out, announcing Liber-ty through all the land, unto all the inhabitants there-of. Such was the inscription on the bell. The royalarms were torn down, and burnt in [he street. Bon-fires were kindled, and the houses illuminated. In NewYork, the leaden statue of George III. was thrownover, cut into pieces, and melted into bullets. In Bos-ton, the Declaration was v/elcomed with cheers. Likedemonstrations were made at Norfolk, Charleston,Savannah, and other places. The Declaration wasread to the soldiers, at the head of the brigades, and received with enthusiasm. X Howes whole forces, if united, would have amounted to about 35,000 men, in-cluding 13,000 Hessians. The Americans in arms were reported to amount to 200,000,but they were widely scattered, and could never be collected in large LIBERTY BELL. ii6 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. THE BATTLE OF LONO ISLAND. 41. Howe sailed from Halifax in the end of June, andplanted himself on Staten Island. Here he was joined byLord Howe and the fleet, and by Parker and Clinton fromSouth Carolina. Ten thousand men and forty cannon werelanded on Long Island, to expel the Americans under GeneralSullivan, who lay before Brooklyn. The patriots were com-. pletely entrapped. They were assailed in front andrear, routed, and driven into the town. Fifteenhundred were killed or captured. The shattered remnant wasskilfully withdrawn by Washington, the second midnight, andtransferred to New York. THE CAPTURE OF NEW YORK. 42. The English fleet commanded the harbor of New York, theHudson, and theEast River. Thevictorious troopscould be easilylanded at anypoint. Many in-habitants of thecity earnestly fav-ored the royalcause. Washing-tons army was dis-organized, andcrippled by deser-tion. He left thecity
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