. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... everydog in the vicinity was put to negro who visited the fort regularlyto sell fruit, and who had been for some time•acdng as a spy for the Americans, agreed toguide them to the work. At midnight on the fifteenth of July thestorming party, guided by the negro, ap-proached the fort in two divisions. Not aman was permitted to load his musket, lestthe accidental discharge of a gun should ruinthe The negro, accompaniedby two soldiers who were
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... everydog in the vicinity was put to negro who visited the fort regularlyto sell fruit, and who had been for some time•acdng as a spy for the Americans, agreed toguide them to the work. At midnight on the fifteenth of July thestorming party, guided by the negro, ap-proached the fort in two divisions. Not aman was permitted to load his musket, lestthe accidental discharge of a gun should ruinthe The negro, accompaniedby two soldiers who were disguised asfarmers, approached the first sentinel and gave the countersign. The sentinel was atonce seized and gagged, and the same wa.^done with the second sentinel The thirrhowever, gave the alarm, and the garrisonflev/ to arms and opened a sharp fire uponthe Americans. The lai-ter now dashed for-ward at a run, scaled the parapet, and ina few moments the two opposite divisions metin the centre of the fort. The Americans took more than five hun-dred prisoners and all the supplies andartillery of the fort fell into their GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE. Though 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 hundreda
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