This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...about three thousand six hundred in all, were called in from Crosswicks and Bordentown, reaching Trenton by a night march on the morning of the 2d of January. The poor fellows had hardly got out their camp-kettles, and kindled their fires, with the prospect of a quiet meal and a few hours' rest under the very ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...about three thousand six hundred in all, were called in from Crosswicks and Bordentown, reaching Trenton by a night march on the morning of the 2d of January. The poor fellows had hardly got out their camp-kettles, and kindled their fires, with the prospect of a quiet meal and a few hours' rest under the very same roofs which the week before had sheltered the Hessians, when the drum beat to arms, and they were hurried forward to meet the enemy, who was advancing under Cornwallis by the old road from Princeton.3 Some hours were passed in skirmishing, when Greene was ordered up with a strong detachment to the support of the advance. " I remember him," one of the soldiers of that day told me, in 1850,1 " dashing up to the company I was in" (his own Rhode Islanders, under Hitchcock, who had been with him from the beginning), '' and calling out in a clear, loud voice, ' Push on, boys! push on!'" 1 Gordon, vol. ii. p. 398. 3 Stone's Life and Recollections oj 2 Gordon, vol. ii. p. 398. Vi ash-John Howland, p. 72. ington to President of Cong ress, Works, vol. iv. p. 254. But the pressure was too severe, --eight thousand disciplined men moving resolutely forward upon five thousand weary Continentals and militia.2 Still the retreat through the town was obstinately contested. The only passage to the main body was by a bridge over the Assanpink. On the east end Washington sat watching the progress of the conflict, with a "firm, composed, and majestic countenance," which the men looked on as they passed, and grew strong. His noble horse, pressing the railing with his broad breast, seemed conscious, thought the soldier who lived to tell the story, that " he too was not to quit his post and station."3 As soon as all were safe over, the cannon, which had been...
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