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. 1856 Excerpt: ...state would then become a plundering one, and great manoauvres be out of the question. A prudent (c)fficer would do our business here, and the Baron Steuben is prudent to the utmost. Would it be possible, my dear General, in case a part of the British troops go to New York, I may be allowed to join the combined armies ...
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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. 1856 Excerpt: ...state would then become a plundering one, and great manoauvres be out of the question. A prudent (c)fficer would do our business here, and the Baron Steuben is prudent to the utmost. Would it be possible, my dear General, in case a part of the British troops go to New York, I may be allowed to join the combined armies V1 In another letter he says, " I am entirely a stranger to every thing that passes out of Virginia, and Virginia operations being for the present in a state of languor, I have more time to think of my solitude. In a word, my dear General, 1 am home-sick, and if I cannot go to head quarters wish at least.to hear from thence. I am anxious to know your opinion concerning the Virginia campaign. That the subjugation of this state was the great object of the ministry is an indisputable fact. I think your diversion has been of more use to the state than my manoeuvres, but the latter have been much directed by political views. So long as my lord wished for an action, not one gun has. been fired, but the moment he declined it, we began skirmishing, though I took care never to commit the army. His naval superiority, his superiority of horse, of regulars;--his thousand advantages over us are such that I am lucky to have come off safe. I had an eye upon European negotiations, and made it a point to give his lordship the disgrace of a retreat. " From every account it appears that a part of the army will embark. The light infantry, the guards, the 80th regiment and Queen's Rangers, are, it is said, destined for New York. Lord Cornwallis, I am told, is much disappointed in his hopes of commando Should he go to England, we are, I think, to rejoice for it. He is a cold and active man, two dangerous qualities in this southern war. " The cloth.
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