A history of the American people . NELSON HOUSE, CORNWALLIS S HKAD-QU VRTI RS, York IOWN A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE of Charleston and the counts-sides were once morein American possession, to be purged of loyalist bandsat leisure. In Virginia, Lord Cornwallis moved for a little whilefreely and safely enough; but only for a little Steuben had been busy, winter and spring, rais-ing recruits there for an army of defence; GeneralWashington hurried the Marquis de Lafayette south-ward with twrelve hundred light infantry from hisown command; and by midsummer, 1781, Lafa3Tette. EVOLU
A history of the American people . NELSON HOUSE, CORNWALLIS S HKAD-QU VRTI RS, York IOWN A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE of Charleston and the counts-sides were once morein American possession, to be purged of loyalist bandsat leisure. In Virginia, Lord Cornwallis moved for a little whilefreely and safely enough; but only for a little Steuben had been busy, winter and spring, rais-ing recruits there for an army of defence; GeneralWashington hurried the Marquis de Lafayette south-ward with twrelve hundred light infantry from hisown command; and by midsummer, 1781, Lafa3Tette. EVOLUTION OK THE AMERICAN FLAG was at the British front with a force strong enoughto make it prudent that Cornwallis should concentratehis strength and once more make sure of his base ofsupplies at the coast. His watchful opponents out-manoeuvred him, caught his forces once and againin detail, and made his outposts unsafe. By the firstweek in August he had withdrawn to the sea and hadtaken post behind intrenchments at Yorktown, some-thing more than seven thousand strong. There, upon the peninsula which he deemed his safest coign of vantage, he was trapped and taken. At last the French were at hand. The Comte de Grasse, with twentv-eight ships of the line, six frigates, and 328 THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE twenty thousand men, was in the West Indies. Wash-ington had begged him to come at once either to NewYork or to the Chesapeake. In August he sent wordthat he would come to the Chesapeake. ThereuponWashington once again moved with the sudden di-rectness he had shown at Trenton and Princet
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