. The true story of George Washington : called the father of his country. A HESSIAN. 86 HOW GEORGE WASHINGTON LOST AND WON. defeated the Americans, killed a great many, taken a gfeatmany prisoners, and driven the rest within their entrench-ments at Brooklyn, he said: To-morrow evening will bringthe fleet up the river and, with an army on one side of the. THE COMING OF THE HESSIANS. rebels and our ships on the other, we will * bag the wholearmy and crush the rebellion. But the trouble with Lord Howe, as with the other Brit-ish generals, was that he did not understand American lea
. The true story of George Washington : called the father of his country. A HESSIAN. 86 HOW GEORGE WASHINGTON LOST AND WON. defeated the Americans, killed a great many, taken a gfeatmany prisoners, and driven the rest within their entrench-ments at Brooklyn, he said: To-morrow evening will bringthe fleet up the river and, with an army on one side of the. THE COMING OF THE HESSIANS. rebels and our ships on the other, we will * bag the wholearmy and crush the rebellion. But the trouble with Lord Howe, as with the other Brit-ish generals, was that he did not understand American leader expected to be defeated. He knewthat his troops must be drilled into an army before they HOW GEORGE WASHINGTON LOST AND WON. 87 could successfully face the soldiers of King George, and itwas this patient courage that George Washington showed,in the midst of defeat and danger, all through the Revolution,that was one of the things that made him great. So, whilehe gathered his defeated army within the lines at Brooklyn,he saw through Lord Howes plan to capture him, and with-out waiting for the too-confident British general to try hisplan, he determined to save his army by a retreat to NewYork. It was a dangerous experiment. If the Britishknew that he was trying to escape them, they would swarmdown upon his little army and capture or destroy it.
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