The Life of George Washington

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: inattention of their country; but the majority of thn army submitted to the scarcity without a murmur General Washington ordered the country to be scour ed, and provisions to be seized wherever they could be found. At the same time he stated the situation of the army to Congress, and warned that body of the dangerous consequences of this mode of obtaining supplies. It was calculated he said, to ruin the discipline of the soldiers, and to raise in them a disposition for plunder and licentiousness. It must create in thi minds of the inhabitants jealousy and dissatisfaction I regret the occasion which compelled me to the measure the other day, and shall consider it among the greatest of our misfortunes to be under the necessity of practising' it again. I am now obliged to keep several parties from the army threshing grain, that our supplies may not fail, but this will not do.?Dur ing the whole winter, the sufferings of the troops at Valley Forge were extreme. CHAPTER V. Progress and Issue of the Northern Campaign?Plan to displaca General Washington?His Correspondence on the Sublect?Letter of General Gates?Remonstrance of the Legislature of Pennsylvania against closing the Campaign?Observations of the Commander in Chief upon it?Sufferings of the Army for the want of Provisions and Clothing?Measures adopted by the Commander in Chief to obtain Supplies?Methods taken to Recruit the Army - -Sir Henry Clinton appointed Commander in Chief of the British Forces?He evacuates Philadelphia, and marches through New- Jersey to New-York?General Washington pursues him?Battle of Monmouth?Thanks of Congress to the General and Army? General Lee censured?He demands a Court Martial, and is suspended from his command?French Fleet appears on the American Coast?Expedition against Rhode-Island?It ...