A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . was disappointed on being made second toWashington. Jealousy prompted him to dishonor and treachery. Inaddition to disobeying orders, he wrote letters to prominent personsslandering Washington. After Washingtons retreat, he crossed to NewJersey, and there, sleeping outside his army lines, was taken prisonerby a party of British dragoons. General Sullivan then took command,and hastened to join Washington. It has lately been learned, fromthe discovery of Howes papers, that Lee betrayed the American causewhile a prisoner
A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . was disappointed on being made second toWashington. Jealousy prompted him to dishonor and treachery. Inaddition to disobeying orders, he wrote letters to prominent personsslandering Washington. After Washingtons retreat, he crossed to NewJersey, and there, sleeping outside his army lines, was taken prisonerby a party of British dragoons. General Sullivan then took command,and hastened to join Washington. It has lately been learned, fromthe discovery of Howes papers, that Lee betrayed the American causewhile a prisoner, giving Howe all the information be could aboutWashingtons nlan?. THE STRUGGLE FOP INDEPENDENCE. 201 commander quartered his troops in the villages near theDelaware, and waited the work of the frost. Discouragement of the Americans.—The Americancause was now in a serious state. Washingtons small armywas ragged and disheartened. New recruits were not to behad. The time of enlistment of many of the soldiers wouldexpire at the end of the year, and there was no iioj)e thai. ii-S*-^^!*- Washtngtons Akivtv CRassiNo the Delaware. they would re-enlist. To the capture of New York had beenadded that of Newport. Congress had fled from Philadel-phia. Many persons of prominence had returned to theirallegiance to George III. It looked as if the revolution wasrapidly nearing its end. The Victory at Trenton.—Such was the situation nearthe end of 1776. By a daring stroke Washington completelychanged it, and brought hope out of depression. Feelingthat he must act at once or all would be lost, he crossedthe Delaware on Christmas-night, in a storm of snow andsleet and amid the floating ice, marched his two thousand 208 FROM COLONIES TO UNITED STATES. five hundred men nine miles through the storm, and atbreak of day fell upon the Hessian force stationed at Tren-ton. Taken by surprise, they made but little colonel ^ fell mortally wounded, and one thousand pris-oners were taken,
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