. A brief history of the United States . ngton has outgeneraled us. Let us flyto tbe rescue at PriacetooJ I777-] THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 119 These exploits won for Washington universal praise,* andhe was declared to be the saver of his country. Campaign in Pennsylvania.—Howe, having spent thenext summer at New York, where he was closely watched byWashington, finally took the field, and manoeuvred to force thepatriot army to a general the American Fa-bius too wary for him, he sud-denly embarked eighteen thou-sand men on his brothers fleet,and set sail. Washington hur-ried south to
. A brief history of the United States . ngton has outgeneraled us. Let us flyto tbe rescue at PriacetooJ I777-] THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 119 These exploits won for Washington universal praise,* andhe was declared to be the saver of his country. Campaign in Pennsylvania.—Howe, having spent thenext summer at New York, where he was closely watched byWashington, finally took the field, and manoeuvred to force thepatriot army to a general the American Fa-bius too wary for him, he sud-denly embarked eighteen thou-sand men on his brothers fleet,and set sail. Washington hur-ried south to meet him. Thepatriot army numbered only11,000, but when Washingtonlearned that the British hadarrived in the Chesapeake, heresolved to hazard a battle forthe defence of Philadelphia. Battle of Brandywine(Sept. 11).—The Americans took position at Chads Ford,on the Brandywine. Here they were attacked in front whileCornwaUis stole around in the rear, as Clinton did in the bat-tle of Long Island. Sullivan, Sterling, La Fayette, f Wayne,. MARQUIS DE LA FAYETTE. * Frederick the Great of Prussia is said to have declared that the achievementsof Washington and his little band, during the six weeks foUowing Christmas, werethe most brilliant recorded on the pages of mDitary history. + La Fayettes full name was Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motier Marquisde la Fayette. At a banquet in honor of the brother of the English king, he first heardthe Declaration of Independence. He was won by its arguments, and from that timejoined his hopes and sympathies to the American cause. Yet, how was he to aid it ?The French nobility, though disliking England, did not endorse the action of hercolonies. He was not yet twenty years of age ; he had just married a woman whomhe tenderly loved ; his prospects at home for honor and happiness were bright; tojoin the patriot army would take him from his native land, his wife, and all his cov-eted ambitions, and lead him into a struggle that seemed as hopel
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