Valley Forge, a chronicle of American heroism . fighter. Skillful, energetic, full of resources and presence ofmind, quick to comprehend and prompt to act, of sound judgment and extraordinarycourage, he has in him the qualities of a great general as he shall show many atime in his short life of one-and-fifty years. Pennsylvania, in her quiet fashion,may not make as much of his fame as it deserves, but impartial history will allowher none the less the honor of having given its most brilliant soldier to theRevolution in her Anthony Wayne. Poor, of New Hampshire, is encamped next,and then Glover,
Valley Forge, a chronicle of American heroism . fighter. Skillful, energetic, full of resources and presence ofmind, quick to comprehend and prompt to act, of sound judgment and extraordinarycourage, he has in him the qualities of a great general as he shall show many atime in his short life of one-and-fifty years. Pennsylvania, in her quiet fashion,may not make as much of his fame as it deserves, but impartial history will allowher none the less the honor of having given its most brilliant soldier to theRevolution in her Anthony Wayne. Poor, of New Hampshire, is encamped next,and then Glover, whose regiment of Marblehead sailors and fishermen mannedthe boats that saved the army on the night of the retreat from Long , Patterson and Weedon follow, and then, at the corner of the intrenchmentsby the river is the Virginia Brigade of Muhlenberg. Born at the Trappe close byand educated abroad, Muhlenberg was a clergyman in Virginia when the war cameon, but he has doffed his parsons gown forever for the buff and blue of a 28. ^™-SHESrS=~— ? 29
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