A history of the United States for schools . -•\^^ N^- ^?^^^W MAJOR with Arnold near StonyPoint. On his way back toNew York, Andre wasstopped and searched bythree yeomen near Tarry-town, and, as suspiciouslooking papers in Arnoldshandwriting were found inhis stockings, they arrestedhim for a spy. These pa-pers revealed the plot. Ar-nold received informationin time to escape and flyto the British in NewYork. Andre was tried bya military commission and hanged. 99. Victories in the South. The old adage thatit is always darkestjust before dawn wasnow illustrated. Onlyfive days after the ex
A history of the United States for schools . -•\^^ N^- ^?^^^W MAJOR with Arnold near StonyPoint. On his way back toNew York, Andre wasstopped and searched bythree yeomen near Tarry-town, and, as suspiciouslooking papers in Arnoldshandwriting were found inhis stockings, they arrestedhim for a spy. These pa-pers revealed the plot. Ar-nold received informationin time to escape and flyto the British in NewYork. Andre was tried bya military commission and hanged. 99. Victories in the South. The old adage thatit is always darkestjust before dawn wasnow illustrated. Onlyfive days after the exe-cution of Andre, therewas a great Americanvictory at the South,A force of i,ioo Brit-ish and Tories pene-trated too far into themountains, and weremet by a swarm ofbackwoodsmen. In thebattle of Kings Moun-tain, October 7, all genukal ^ From a portrait by himself. 2 After a photograpli of a § 99- THE WINNING OF INDEPENDENCE. 239 the British who were not killed or wounded were takenprisoners. This was the beginning of a se- Nathanaeiries of victories. A new army was raised for ^?^^^•the South, and put under command of Nathanaei Greene,a general scarcely second to Washington himself. Under Greene were three Virginians of great ability,— Daniel Morgan ; William Washington, a distant cousinof the commander-in-chief; and Henry Lee, familiarlyknown as Light-horse Harry, father of the famousConfederate general, Robert Edward Lee. The most famous British commander of light-armedtroops was Banastre Tarleton, On the 17th of January,1781, in the battle of the Cowpens, Tarleton was de-feated by Morgan. It was piece of only 900 men, in open field Morgan surroundedand nearly annihilateda superior force. The r^ British lost 230 in killedand wounded, 600 prison-ers, and all their escaped with270 men. The Ameri-cans lost twelve killedand sixt
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