A history of the American people . d, the defeated army was as steady and as well inhand after the battle as before; and the English with-drew to Wilmington, on the coast. It seemed a hazardous thing to take an army thencesouthward again, withsupplies, through theforests where Greenemoved; news came thatGeneral Arnold was inVirginia with a consid-erable body of Clintonstroops from New York,to anticipate what thesouthern commanderhad planned to do forthe conquest of the OldDominion when the Car-olinas should have been pacified from end to end; and Cornwallis determinedto move northward instead
A history of the American people . d, the defeated army was as steady and as well inhand after the battle as before; and the English with-drew to Wilmington, on the coast. It seemed a hazardous thing to take an army thencesouthward again, withsupplies, through theforests where Greenemoved; news came thatGeneral Arnold was inVirginia with a consid-erable body of Clintonstroops from New York,to anticipate what thesouthern commanderhad planned to do forthe conquest of the OldDominion when the Car-olinas should have been pacified from end to end; and Cornwallis determinedto move northward instead of southward, and joinArnold in Virginia. Greene moved a little way inIns track, and then turned southward again againsttin- garrisons of the inland posts. Lord Rawdon beathim at Ilobkirks Hill (April 2^{\\) and held him offat Eutaw Springs (September 8th); but both times theEnglish withdrew to save their communications; and,though the work was slow in the doing, before wintercame again they were shut within tin- fortifications327. NELSON HOUSE, CORNWALLIS S HKAD-QU VRTI RS, York IOWN A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE of Charleston and the counts-sides were once morein American possession, to be purged of loyalist bandsat leisure. In Virginia, Lord Cornwallis moved for a little whilefreely and safely enough; but only for a little Steuben had been busy, winter and spring, rais-ing recruits there for an army of defence; GeneralWashington hurried the Marquis de Lafayette south-ward with twrelve hundred light infantry from hisown command; and by midsummer, 1781, Lafa3Tette
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