. A history of the United States for secondary schools . ade NewYork no longer tenable, and Howe entered the city onthe J 5th of September, the Americans retreating north- REVOLUTION AND WAR OF INDEPENDENCE. 209 ward, fighting stubbornlyas they drew back to astrong position, up the river,among the hills. At thesame time they were threat-ened from the north, theBritish commander in Can-ada, Sir Guy ^ 1 , 1 . Arnold Carleton, havmg checks ., ,1 . British attempted an m- on Lake 1 r Ghamplain. vasion by way or Lake Champlain ; but Ben-edict Arnold, in commandat Ticonderoga, got afleet of small ve
. A history of the United States for secondary schools . ade NewYork no longer tenable, and Howe entered the city onthe J 5th of September, the Americans retreating north- REVOLUTION AND WAR OF INDEPENDENCE. 209 ward, fighting stubbornlyas they drew back to astrong position, up the river,among the hills. At thesame time they were threat-ened from the north, theBritish commander in Can-ada, Sir Guy ^ 1 , 1 . Arnold Carleton, havmg checks ., ,1 . British attempted an m- on Lake 1 r Ghamplain. vasion by way or Lake Champlain ; but Ben-edict Arnold, in commandat Ticonderoga, got afleet of small vessels afloatand checked his advance,though defeated, in a stub-born fight (October 11). Hostile criticism begannow to assail the sorelytried commander-in-chief;envious rivals intriguedagainst him ; ignorant menin Congress in- mtriguesterfered with fjjjiig-his plans. Fort *°Washington, on the Hud-son, was lost in conse-quence (November 16),with a garrison of nearly3000 men, and thewretched impostor. Gen-eral Charles Lee, now backfrom the south, had en-. T L A. N T 1OCEAN THE FIELD OF WAR ON THE HUDSON. 210 THE MAKING OF A NATION. couragement to disobey orders, keei^ing- 7000 of themeagre American force away from the commanders con-trol at a most critical time. But, ha}ipily for the Americancause, Lee put himself, presently, in the way of beingcaught by the British, and one serious cause of mischiefwas removed for a time. Washington had then crossedthe Hudson and retreated through New Jersey, to apoint beyond the Delaware, pursued by Lord Cornwallis,with British and Hessian troops. The short terms olso many of his militia-men had expired that hardly 30CX)remained, and most of those would be entitled to dis-charge at the end of the year. There was no money fortheir pay, and no public credit on which to raise and some of his officers borrowed what theycould on the pledge of their own estates. * These areThetimes ^^^ times, wrote Thomas Paine, that trymens^ mens so
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