. A brief history of the United States . }.#o^uW^.4^ CONTINENTAL MONEY. pay for a month would hardly buy him a dinner. To makethe matter worse, the British had flooded the country withcounterfeits, which couldnot be told from the genu-ine. Many persons refusedto take continental sufferings of the sol-diers and the difl&culty ofprocuring supplies may bereadily imagined. * ThePennsylvania regiments incamp at Morristown, claim-ing that their time had erpired, demanded their last, 1,300 strong, they set out for Princeton to secureredress at the point of the bayonet, but a co
. A brief history of the United States . }.#o^uW^.4^ CONTINENTAL MONEY. pay for a month would hardly buy him a dinner. To makethe matter worse, the British had flooded the country withcounterfeits, which couldnot be told from the genu-ine. Many persons refusedto take continental sufferings of the sol-diers and the difl&culty ofprocuring supplies may bereadily imagined. * ThePennsylvania regiments incamp at Morristown, claim-ing that their time had erpired, demanded their last, 1,300 strong, they set out for Princeton to secureredress at the point of the bayonet, but a committee of Con-gress succeeded in satisfying them, f Arnolds Treason.—The EngUsh did little at the Xorth,and the condition of Washingtons army prevented his makingany movement. Meanwhile the cause of liberty suffered aterrible blow from one who had been its gallant Arnold, whose bravery at Quebec and Saratoga hadawakened universal admiration, was stationed at Philadelphiawhile his wound was heahng. He there marrie
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