A history of the American people . SULLIVANS -ISLAND J&Jto&rjM M . FORT MOULTRIE SULLIVANS ISLAND MAP OF SULLIVAN S ISLAND off both the fleet and the troops landed from it; andthe British went northward again to concentrate uponNew York. On the 28th of June,—the very day of the attack atCharleston,—Howes transports began to gather inthe lower bay. A few days more, and there were thirtythousand troops waiting to be landed. It was impos-sible, with the force Washington had, to prevent theirbeing put ashore at their commanders convenience. Itwas impossible to close the Narrows, to keep their ship
A history of the American people . SULLIVANS -ISLAND J&Jto&rjM M . FORT MOULTRIE SULLIVANS ISLAND MAP OF SULLIVAN S ISLAND off both the fleet and the troops landed from it; andthe British went northward again to concentrate uponNew York. On the 28th of June,—the very day of the attack atCharleston,—Howes transports began to gather inthe lower bay. A few days more, and there were thirtythousand troops waiting to be landed. It was impos-sible, with the force Washington had, to prevent theirbeing put ashore at their commanders convenience. Itwas impossible to close the Narrows, to keep their shipsfrom the inner bay, or even to prevent their passingup the river as they pleased. Washington could onlywait within the exposed town or within his trencheson Brooklyn heights, which commanded the town al-250 THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE most as Dorchester and Charlestown heights com-manded MiYvtufouk Willi.\M MOULTRIE For a month and more Sir William waited, his troopsmost of them still upon the ships, until he should firstattempt to fulfil his mission of peace and accommo-25] A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE dation. His brother, Admiral Lord Howe, joined himthere in July. They were authorized to offer uncon-ditional pardon, even now, to all who would ministers in England could not have chosen com-missioners of peace more acceptable to the Americansor more likely to be heard than the Howes. Not onlywere they men of honor, showing in all that they didthe straightforward candor and the instinctive senseof duty that came with their breeding and their train-ing in arms, but they were also brothers of that gallantyoung soldier who had come over almost twenty yearsago to fight the French with Abercrombie, to be lovedby every man who became his comrade, and to losehis life untimely fighting forward through the forestswhich lay about Ticonderoga, a knightly and heroi
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