An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . Danbury, on the after-noon of the 26th, the American troops having retired with a part ofthe stores and provisions. The enemy, on their arrival, began burn-ing and destroying the remainder, together with eighteen houses and:their contents. On the approach of the British armament, the country was alarmed :.and, early the next morning, General Sullivan, with about five hun-dred men,
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . Danbury, on the after-noon of the 26th, the American troops having retired with a part ofthe stores and provisions. The enemy, on their arrival, began burn-ing and destroying the remainder, together with eighteen houses and:their contents. On the approach of the British armament, the country was alarmed :.and, early the next morning, General Sullivan, with about five hun-dred men, pursued the enemy, who had twenty-three miles to march-He was joined by Generals Arnold and Wooster, with about twohundred militia ; and when the royal troops quilted Danbury on the-2Tth, the Americans marched after them. General Wooster wasmortally wounded ; and the Americans lost about twenty killed andforty wounded. Governor Tryon lost about four hundred men inkilled, wounded, and prisoners. On the 18th of April, General Cornwallis surprised the post alRoundbrock, and General Lincoln, who commanded the Americanforce there, narrowly escaped rapture, with the loss of sixty killeil, 356 CAMPAIGN OF GENBRAL WOOSTEa. wounded, and prisoners. The British destroyed the stores a/idevacuated the place. This was retaliated by a similar inroad onSagg Harbour, made by Colonel Meigs, who destroyed a largeamount of shipping, and captured ninety prisoners, without the lossof a man. On the 10th of July, Colonel Barton surprised and cap-lured General Prescott, at his quarters in Rhode Island, which wasthen held by the British. Prescott was soon after exchanged forOeneral Charles Lee. While these desultory operations were going on, Washington wasactively raising and organizing troops. Levies, however, went onvery slowly, through the discouraging state of the cause and therigour of the season ; so that, at the opening of the campaign, he hadnot mustered quite eight thousand men. The
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