A history of the United States for schools . tention away from the HudsonRiver. But Washington, who always did what theenemy did not expect, pro-tected Connecticut by storm-ing the British works stonyat Stony Point. The p°-assault, which was one of themost brilliant in military his-tory, was conducted by An-thony Wayne. The loss ofthis fort made Clinton callback his marauders withoutdelay. 95. Conflicts on the Fron-tier and at Sea. In theyears 1778 and 1779, therewas constant warfare with Tories and Indians on thefrontier. In July, 1778, these enemies spread death anddesolation through the bea
A history of the United States for schools . tention away from the HudsonRiver. But Washington, who always did what theenemy did not expect, pro-tected Connecticut by storm-ing the British works stonyat Stony Point. The p°-assault, which was one of themost brilliant in military his-tory, was conducted by An-thony Wayne. The loss ofthis fort made Clinton callback his marauders withoutdelay. 95. Conflicts on the Fron-tier and at Sea. In theyears 1778 and 1779, therewas constant warfare with Tories and Indians on thefrontier. In July, 1778, these enemies spread death anddesolation through the beautiful valley of Wyoming, inPennsylvania. Many other atrocities were committed, and the next year anarmy under Sullivaninvaded the countryof the Six Nations,defeated the Toriesand Indians with greatslaughter, and burnedmore than forty vil-lages. The Six Na-tions never recoveredfrom this the Southwest, the famous hunter, Daniel Boone,had begun the settlement of Kentucky, while James Rob- 1 From the National Portrait Gallery, vol. CAMPAIGN OF GEORGE ROGERS CLARK. 234 THE REVOLUTION. Ch. XI. ertson was moving into Tennessee, and there was muchFrontier fighting with the tribes in those parts. Introubles. j^^g^ Colonel Hamilton, the British com-mander at Detroit, tried to stir up all the western tribes to a concerted attackupon the frontier. Ayoung Virginian, GeorgeRogers Clark, hearing ofthis, undertook to carry thewar into the enemys coun-try. In two romantic andmasterly campaigns, in1778-79, he defeated andcaptured Hamilton at Vin-cennes, and ended by con-quering and holding thewhole country north of theOhio River, from the Alle-ghanies to the year 1779 was also famous for the exploits ofour bold naval captain, Paul Jones, who burned the ship-„ ,, pins in British ports, sailed into the Frith of Paul Jones. ^ t> i Forth and threatened Edinburgh, and finallycaptured two British war vessels off Flamborough Head,in one of the most desperate sea fight
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