A history of the American people . ff whatever they could lay hands upon,striking sometimes along the coast as far as Connec-ticut and even the Chesapeake at the south ; but armedbands were quick to muster to oppose and harass themwherever they went, and it was never safe for them tolinger. Clinton thrust his lines out upon the riverand fortified Stony Point; but Anthony Wayne stormedthe place of a sudden, with twelve hundred men, andtook it, with unshotted guns at the point of the bayo-net before dawn on the morning of the 15th of July,and brought more than five hundred prisoners awaywith him
A history of the American people . ff whatever they could lay hands upon,striking sometimes along the coast as far as Connec-ticut and even the Chesapeake at the south ; but armedbands were quick to muster to oppose and harass themwherever they went, and it was never safe for them tolinger. Clinton thrust his lines out upon the riverand fortified Stony Point; but Anthony Wayne stormedthe place of a sudden, with twelve hundred men, andtook it, with unshotted guns at the point of the bayo-net before dawn on the morning of the 15th of July,and brought more than five hundred prisoners awaywith him, having come with that quick fury of reck-less attack which made men call him Mad Anthony,and having as quickly withdrawn again. Harry Leestormed Paulus Hook in like fashion, and the Britishwere nowhere very easy within their lines. But, for298 THE WAR FOE INDEPENDENCE the rest, there was little to break the monotony of wait-ing for news of the war at Englands door, where thefleets of the allies threatened her. Privateersmen were. CHARLES JAMES FOX as busy as ever, and as much to be feared, almost, asthe French cruisers themselves; hut the formal oper-ations of the war seemed vaguely postponed. With-out the co-operation of a naval force it was impossible299 A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE for Washington to do anything against Sir Henryat New York. While he waited, therefore, he despatched GeneralSullivan with five thousand men into the forest coun-try of the Mohawk and the Susquehanna to make anend of the cruel mischief wrought upon defencelesshomes b\7 the bitter Tories and their red allies. Thelittle army, sent forward in divisions, swept throughthe country it was bidden clear like men who searchedstream and valley upon a journe}7 of discovery; con-verged to meet their hunted foes, but fifteen hundredstrong, where they lay at bay within a bend of theChemung,—the full rally of the forest country, Britishregulars, Tory rangers, Indian braves, Johnson, theButlers, Joseph Bra
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