. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... gh they were justly exasperated by tbrutal outrages of the British^ which *•have related^ they conducted themselve-towards their prisoners with a noblehumanity. The British historian, Stedman,declares, They (the , Americans) wouldhave been fully justified in putting the gar-rison to the sword; not one man of whichwas put- to death but in fair combat. Itwas one of the most brilliant expeditions ofthe war. Wayne now proceeded to prepare 444 THE AMERICAN RI:VOL
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... gh they were justly exasperated by tbrutal outrages of the British^ which *•have related^ they conducted themselve-towards their prisoners with a noblehumanity. The British historian, Stedman,declares, They (the , Americans) wouldhave been fully justified in putting the gar-rison to the sword; not one man of whichwas put- to death but in fair combat. Itwas one of the most brilliant expeditions ofthe war. Wayne now proceeded to prepare 444 THE AMERICAN RI:VOLUTION. for the reduction of the fort at VerplancksPoinr, but while he was thus engaged aheavy British force ascended the river to itsrehef, and he was obhged to forego hisattack and also to abandon vStony Point. On the night of the eighteenth of JuneMajor Henry Lee made a bold dash at theBritish fort at Paulus Hook, now JerseyCity, and captured it, taking one hundredand fifty-nine prisoners. The British madegreat efforts to intercept him, but he effectedhis retreat in safety, bringing off hisprisoners and losing only two men. For. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL HENRY LEE. /hese gallant exploits both Wayne and Leewere each voted a gold medal by the close of the summer of 1779Washington resolved to inflict upon theLidians a severe punishment for their out-rages upon the whites, and especially formassacres of Wyoming and Cherry Valleyin the previous year. Early in AugustGeneral Sullivan was sent into WesternNew York with three thousand men, withorders to ravish the country of the SixNations. He was joined by General JamesClinton with two thousand men, and on thetwenty-ninth of August attacked and de- feated a force of seventeen hundred Indiansand Tories at Newtown, now Elmira. Sulli-van followed up his victory by pushing for-ward into the Indian country and laying itwaste with fire and sword. In the course ofa few weeks he destroyed more than fortyIndian villages and burned
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