United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . MAP UNITED STATES FROM nil CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTION TO THK Purchase of I THE END. 353. Guard. 1 G-amlGuanl that the Americans and French would immediately begin the siege ofNew York; and for that Clinton made ready. When, in the last day;?of August, he was informed that Washington had broken up his campand was already marching with his whole army toward Virginia, theBritish general would not believe it, but went on prepa
United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . MAP UNITED STATES FROM nil CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTION TO THK Purchase of I THE END. 353. Guard. 1 G-amlGuanl that the Americans and French would immediately begin the siege ofNew York; and for that Clinton made ready. When, in the last day;?of August, he was informed that Washington had broken up his campand was already marching with his whole army toward Virginia, theBritish general would not believe it, but went on preparing for a pressed rapidly forward, paused two days at Mount Vernon,where he had not been for six years, and met La Fayette at Williams-burg. Meanwhile, on the 30th of August, the French fleet, numberingtwenty-eight ships of the line, with nearly four thousand troops on board,had reached the Chesapeake and safely anchored in the mouth of YorkRiver. Cornwallis, with the British army, was blockaded both by seaand land. To add still further to the strength of the allies, Count de Barras,who commanded the French flotilla at Newport, sailed into the Chesa-peake with eight ships of theline and ten transports, bear-ing cannon for the siege. Ont
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