A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . rywhererose in arms. Men flockedfrom their farms and work-shops to the camp whichwas formed near Putnam, who hadbeen an officer in theFrench War, left his plowin the field at his home inConnecticut, and rode tothat place, a distance ofsixty-eight miles, in oneday. Stark from NewHampshire, and Greenefrom Rhode Island, soonarrived. The Second Continental Congress, in session at Philadelphia,assumed control of military operations in all the colonies. Atthe suggestion first made by John Adams of Massachusetts,Colo
A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . rywhererose in arms. Men flockedfrom their farms and work-shops to the camp whichwas formed near Putnam, who hadbeen an officer in theFrench War, left his plowin the field at his home inConnecticut, and rode tothat place, a distance ofsixty-eight miles, in oneday. Stark from NewHampshire, and Greenefrom Rhode Island, soonarrived. The Second Continental Congress, in session at Philadelphia,assumed control of military operations in all the colonies. Atthe suggestion first made by John Adams of Massachusetts,Colonel George Washington of Virginia was unanimously ap-pointed commander-in-chief. His mingled courage and pru-dence, his lofty and unselfish patriotism, his admirable sobrietyof judgment, and his rare power of self-control, connected as itwas with a not less rare power of command, and with a firmnesswhich no disaster could shake, made him one of the noblestof men. Before he reached Cambridge, where he assumedcommand of the gathering forces (July 3, 1775), he received. Washington 456 WAR or AMEEICAN INDEPENDENCE tlie news of the battle of Bunker Hill, in which the provincialsoldiers, under Putnam and Prescott, made a stand against theregulars, as the British troops were called, and retreatedonly on the third assault, and when their ammunition hadgiven out. Dr. Joseph Warren, a leading Boston patriot, wasslain in the battle. Before this time. Fort Ticonderoga hadbeen captured by Ethan Allen, and cannon been sent from itto aid in the siege of Boston (1775). But an attack on Quebecby Arnold and Montgomery, who entered Canada by differentroutes, failed of its object. Before British reinforcementsarrived, the American troops abandoned Canada. In the at-tack on Quebec, Montgomery fell, and Arnold was severelywounded (Dec. 31, 1775). Independence Only a brief sketch can here be given of the seven years straggle of the United Colonies. On the 4th ofJuly, 1776, the Declaration of Independ
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