A history of the United States for schools . ght the war was over, and had sent his trunkson board ship, intending to return to England, now camein haste to attack Washington, who had brought his fullforce back into New Jersey. In the early morning ofJanuary 3, by a wonderful manoeuvre, WashingtonBattle of marched his army around Cornwalliss flank,Princeton, crushed his rear in a sharp fight at Princeton,and then planted himself upon the heights of position, by threatening the British line of supplies, kept them from crossingNew Jersey to take Phila-delphia, and for the nextfiv
A history of the United States for schools . ght the war was over, and had sent his trunkson board ship, intending to return to England, now camein haste to attack Washington, who had brought his fullforce back into New Jersey. In the early morning ofJanuary 3, by a wonderful manoeuvre, WashingtonBattle of marched his army around Cornwalliss flank,Princeton, crushed his rear in a sharp fight at Princeton,and then planted himself upon the heights of position, by threatening the British line of supplies, kept them from crossingNew Jersey to take Phila-delphia, and for the nextfive months they stayedquietly in New York. The result of the fight-ing and manoeuvringfrom Long Island to Mor-ristown showed the worldthat the Americans werecommanded by militarygenius of the highestorder. The French werebeginning to think itmight be worth their while to help us, and thus get re-venged upon the British for the last war. One brilliantyoung Frenchman, not yet twenty years old, the Marquis ^ From the London Magazine, June, LORD §§ 88, 89- THE WINNING OF INDEPENDENCE. 223 de Lafayette, could not wait for his own government toact, but fitted up a ship at his own expense, 1 • ^ A • rr ^ ?, ? . Lafavette. and, coming to America, offered his services toCongress as a vokmteer without pay. Other Europeanofficers who rendered eminent services to the Ameri-can cause were theGerman Kalb andthe two noble Poles,Kosciuszko and Pu-laski. 89. The SecondAttempt to Con-quer New British plan,for the summer of1777, was to movewith three armiesat once, as fol-lows : (i) A forceof about 9,000 menwas to come downfrom Canada by way of Lake Champlain, and move uponAlbany: the command of this movement was ^, , -^ The three intrusted to General John Burgoyne, an excel-lent gentleman, who, but for his misfortunes,would have been remembered as a playwriter ratherthan as a soldier. (2) A force of about 2,000 men, underColonel Barry St. Leger, was to ascend the
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