. The history of Scotland, its Highlands, regiments and clans. tion took place, andthe Americans were driven from aU their posts throughthe woods towards the main army. Meanwhile GeneralKnyphausen, with his division, made demonstrationsfor crossing the river at Chads Ford, and as soon as heknew from the firing of cannon that Lord CornwaUissmovement had succeeded, he passed the river, and car-ried the batteries and entrenchments of the general rout ensued, and General Washington, withthe corps he was able to keep together, fled with hisbaggage and cannon to Chester. The British had fift
. The history of Scotland, its Highlands, regiments and clans. tion took place, andthe Americans were driven from aU their posts throughthe woods towards the main army. Meanwhile GeneralKnyphausen, with his division, made demonstrationsfor crossing the river at Chads Ford, and as soon as heknew from the firing of cannon that Lord CornwaUissmovement had succeeded, he passed the river, and car-ried the batteries and entrenchments of the general rout ensued, and General Washington, withthe corps he was able to keep together, fled with hisbaggage and cannon to Chester. The British had fiftyofficers killed and wounded in the battle of Brandy Wine,and 438 rank and file, including non-commissioned offi-cers. The flank companies of the 42d being the onlyones engaged, had six privates killed, and one sergeantand fifteen privates wounded. Had General Howe followed up this advantage byunmediately pushing forward to Philadelphia next morn-ing, he would probably have dispersed the remains of theAmerican army; but, instead of pursuing the enemy, he 190. THE FORTY-SECOND IN AMERICA remained contented with his success, and allowed theAmerican commander to collect the scattered portionsof his army, and to recruit it. Emboldened by thesupineness of the British general, that cautious, yetbold and enterprising chief, ordered a select brigade ofhis light troops, under the command of General Wayne,to take post six miles in the rear of the British for thepurpose of attacking them whilst passing the SchuylkillRiver, which they intended to ford at Valley Forge onthe twenty-second of September. They were, however,surprised at midnight by a detachment under the Maitland, and the most of them were eitherbayonetted or taken prisoners. On the twenty-fifth,the army marched to German Town, and the followingmorning the grenadiers took peaceable possession ofPhiladelphia. Having received considerable reinforcements, GeneralWashington formed a design to surprise the British armyat G
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