A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . an, four hun-dred and thirteen feet above the Hud-son at Albany, from which it is distantone hundred and twelve miles. TheUnited States arsenal, and barracks forone thousand men, were built in 1813. Fort Stanwix (of which only somemarks remain in the soil) was erectedin 1758, and was at first merely a squarefort, with four bastions, a covered wayand glacis, smTOunded by a palisadedditch. It cost =€266,400, but, throughneglect, was in ruins at the beginningof the Revolution. Having been hastilyrepaired, and named Fort Schuyler, onthe 3d
A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . an, four hun-dred and thirteen feet above the Hud-son at Albany, from which it is distantone hundred and twelve miles. TheUnited States arsenal, and barracks forone thousand men, were built in 1813. Fort Stanwix (of which only somemarks remain in the soil) was erectedin 1758, and was at first merely a squarefort, with four bastions, a covered wayand glacis, smTOunded by a palisadedditch. It cost =€266,400, but, throughneglect, was in ruins at the beginningof the Revolution. Having been hastilyrepaired, and named Fort Schuyler, onthe 3d of August, 1777, it was investedby Colonel St. Legei*, with a large mixedforce from Canada, comprising one thou-sand Indians. Colonel Ganzevoort, how-ever, resolutely refused to surrender;and, although in command of only sevenhundied and fifty men, sent out ColonelWillet to make a diversion in favor ofGeneral Herkimer, who was advancingto his relief, and with such success thatthe enemy were driven from their camp,leaving their baggage and even 170 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 183 Twenty wagon-loads of spoils werebrought into tlio fort. The invadeis,however, returned, and the siege wasclosely pressed ; but Colonel Willet andMajor Stockwell succeeded in passingby stealtli through the midst of the ene-my, and reached General Sullivanscamp at Stillwater, who sent GeneralArnold with assistance. That sagaciousofficer (afterwaid a traitor) so terrifiedthe invaders by exaggerated reports,that they fled in a panic, and failed intheir enterprise as utterly as GeneralBurgoyne, to co-operate with whom, theyhad come from Canada. Utica.—This city, situated on thesouthern bank of the Mohawk, occupiesone of the important points where theline of the Erie canal and the railroadcoincide, and are crossed by severalcountry roads. It has the additionaladvantage of lying on a tract of fertileland, the river alluvion in that countrybeing broad and rich. It is ninety-sixmiles wes
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