. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... This dis-aster closed the campaign for the yearin the south. In the meantime Sir Henry Clinton hadbeen ordered by his government to harassthe American coast, and in accordance withthese instructions despatched a number ofplundering expeditions from New Yorkagainst exposed points. One of these wassent in May, under General Mathews, intothe Chesapeake. Mathews entered the Eliza-beth river, plundered the towns of Norfolkand Portsmouth, and burned one hundredand
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... This dis-aster closed the campaign for the yearin the south. In the meantime Sir Henry Clinton hadbeen ordered by his government to harassthe American coast, and in accordance withthese instructions despatched a number ofplundering expeditions from New Yorkagainst exposed points. One of these wassent in May, under General Mathews, intothe Chesapeake. Mathews entered the Eliza-beth river, plundered the towns of Norfolkand Portsmouth, and burned one hundredand thirty merchant vessels and several ships of war on the stocks at Gosport, near Ports-mouth. He then ascended the James forsome distance and ravaged its shores. Hedestroyed in this expedition two millions ofdollars worth of property, and carried offabout three thousand hogsheads of the return of this expedition, Clfntonascended the Hudson for the purpose oldestroying two forts which the Americansw^ere constructing a short distance belowWest Point, for the protection of KingsFerry, an important crossing-place between. GENERAL BENJAMIN LINCOLN. the Eastern and Middle States. One of these,which was being built at Stony Point, wasabandoned. The work on Verplancks Point,on the east side of the Hudson, immediatelyopposite, was compelled to surrender earlyin June, Returning to New York, Clinton sentGeneral Tryon with twenty-five hundredmen to plunder the coast of Long IslandSound. He plundered New Haven, burnedFairfield and Norwalk, and committed otheroutrages at Sag Harbor, on Long Island. In ,t(lri.^4k~ ..v^^
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