The magazine of American history with notes and queries . he town, having been built soon after thesettlement. Its withered boards and shingles, dun and weather-stained bythe sunshine and frosts of innumerable seasons, shaded by lofty trees andoverhanging vines, speak of times now almost forgotten and of vague tradi-tions of the past. Here it was that Arnold awaited the enemys approach,fearless and undaunted, although the odds against him were over-whelming. The time was too short for much preparation, and only therudest kind of a barricade was erected of wagons, logs, and carts. Therewas litt
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . he town, having been built soon after thesettlement. Its withered boards and shingles, dun and weather-stained bythe sunshine and frosts of innumerable seasons, shaded by lofty trees andoverhanging vines, speak of times now almost forgotten and of vague tradi-tions of the past. Here it was that Arnold awaited the enemys approach,fearless and undaunted, although the odds against him were over-whelming. The time was too short for much preparation, and only therudest kind of a barricade was erected of wagons, logs, and carts. Therewas little military organization in a force gathered so hastily from differentdirections save in the obedience to a superiors orders. The greater por-tion of those who stood behind the barricade were unused to war, and hadgone out to save their homes from destruction rather than to do battlewith an enemy. It was Sunday morning. A thick mass of vapor hungover the earth with an occasional shower until about eleven oclock, when HISTORIC CANNON BALLS AND HOUSES I87. THE STEB1NS HOUSE. SCENE OF THE BATTLE. [From a photograph by the Author,,] the sky lightened for a moment revealing the wooded slopes of the Dan-bury hills, blue and purple in the distance only again to be hidden by thesweeping masses of flying clouds. The British after leaving Danburyproceeded towards the Westchester line as far as Ridgebury, thinkingthus to deceive the Continentals, when they turned abruptly to thesouth and took the road to Ridgefield through the ravine and acrossthe rugged Asproom hills. When within a few miles of Ridgefield, nearwhere the old school house stood, General Wooster, who had been follow-ing in their wake watching a favorable opportunity, fell upon the rear ofthe British column, and a sharp engagement ensued, in which forty Hes-sians were taken prisoners. Still the enemy continued their and alert, General Wooster followed their trail, and where theground presented a favorable plac
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