. A brief history of the United States . tion, he deserted, and for morethan fifty years lived remote from society, a heart-broken man. * This general was a Pole of noble birth. While in France he formed the acquaint-ance of Franklin, who recommended him to Washington. He came to America andoflfered himself to fight as a volunteer for American independence. What canyou do ?■ asked the commander. Try me, was Kosciuskos laconic reply. Wash-ington was greatly pleased with him, and made him his aid. He became a colonel inthe engineer corps, and superintended the construction of the works at West P
. A brief history of the United States . tion, he deserted, and for morethan fifty years lived remote from society, a heart-broken man. * This general was a Pole of noble birth. While in France he formed the acquaint-ance of Franklin, who recommended him to Washington. He came to America andoflfered himself to fight as a volunteer for American independence. What canyou do ?■ asked the commander. Try me, was Kosciuskos laconic reply. Wash-ington was greatly pleased with him, and made him his aid. He became a colonel inthe engineer corps, and superintended the construction of the works at West the war he returned home and led the Poles in their struggles for Cracow is a mound of earth, 150 feet high, raised in his memory. It is composedof earth brought from the battle-fields on which the Poles fought for liberty. In thenew world, his name is perpetuated by a monument at West Point. t Fort Stan wis, on the site of Rome, N. T., in 1T76 was named after Qen. Schuyler. I777-] THE REVOLUTIOKARY WAR. 123. THE AlXrM at fort SCHUYLER. 2. Burgoyne sent a detachment under Colonel Banm toseize the supplies the Americans had collected at Bennington,Vt. General Stark with the militia met him there. AsStark saw the British lines forming for the attack, he ex-claimed, There are the red-coats ; we must beat them to-day, or Molly Stark is a widow. His patriotism and braveryso inspired his raw troops that they defeated the British reg-ulars and took about six hundred j^risoners. * The Two Battles of Saratoga (Sept. 19 and Oct. 7).—Disappointed in his expectation of supplies and reinforce-ments from both these directions, Burgoyne now moved south- * One old man had five sons in the patriot army at Bennington. A neighbor, justfrom the field, told him that one had been unfortunate. Has he proved a coward ora traitor? asked the father. Worse than that, was the answer ; • he has fallen,but while bravely fighting. Ah, said the fether, then I am satisfied. 134
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