This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ... British, having no other object than a quick and safe passage to Sandy Hook, whence they would be conveyed to New York by water, marched away silently in the night, and joined their front division, which had charge of the long train of baggage brought from Philadelphia. CHAPTER XII. Correspondence ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ... British, having no other object than a quick and safe passage to Sandy Hook, whence they would be conveyed to New York by water, marched away silently in the night, and joined their front division, which had charge of the long train of baggage brought from Philadelphia. CHAPTER XII. Correspondence between Lee and Washington.--Lee's Arrest.--Charges.--Trial by a CourtMartial.--Remarks on the Testimony, and on the Decision of the Court. The affair at Monmouth caused the ruin of General Lee. Whatever may be thought of his motives or his conduct in the part he acted, his precipitancy and rashness afterwards brought him into difficulties, which thickened as he advanced, and from which ft was never in his power to extricate himself. It was natural that he should be wounded and mortified by the events of the day; but he fell upon the most indiscreet method imaginable for obtaining redress, even admitting his grievances to have been as great as he would make them. Instead of a calm appeal to the public, by requesting, in respectful terms, a court of inquiry, he wrote vehement letters to the Commander-in-chief, breathing a spirit, and manifesting a temper, which none could approve, and many would condemn. He thereby lost, at the outset, the advantage gained by dignity and selfcommand in supporting even a just cause, and laid himself open on every side to suspicion, prejudice, and censure. Two days after the battle, while the army was at Englishtown, he wrote as follows to Washington. "From the knowledge I have of your Excellency's character, I must conclude that nothing but the misinformation of some very stupid, or misrepresentation of some very wicked person, could have occasioned your making use of so very singular expressions as you did on my...
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