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Grafton, W. Va. (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
Brother, so the Mohawk chief addressed Germain, we hope to see these bad children, the New England people, chastised. The Indians have always been ready to assist the king. And Germain replied: Continue to manifest attachment to the king; and be sure of his majesty's favor. George and his ministers promised themselves important aid from the Iroquois and Northwestern warriors. Unconditional submission was now the watchword of Germain; and when on the evening of the same day the Duke of Grafton attempted once more, in the house of lords, to plead for conciliation, the gentle Dartmouth approved sending over a sufficient force to awe the colonies into submission; Hillsborough would listen to no accommodation, short of the acknowledgment of the right of taxation and the submission of Massachusetts to the law for altering its charter; and Mansfield ridiculed the idea of suspending hostilities, and laughed moderating counsels away. The ministers pursued their rash policy with such vio
Quebec (Canada) (search for this): chapter 19
een no place for parade but in Nova Scotia? A chosen British army, with chosen officers, equipped with every thing essential to war, sent to correct revolted subjects, to chastise a resisting town, to assert the authority of the British parliament, after being imprisoned for many tedious months in the place they were to have punished, found no refuge but on board the fleet. In these very hours the confidence of the ministry was at its point of culmination; they had heard of the safety of Quebec; they had succeeded in engaging more than twenty thousand German mercenaries and recruits, and they would not hearken to a doubt of Chap. LIX.} 1776. Mar. speedily crushing the rebellion. On the morning of the fourteenth of March, the British secretary of state listened to a speech from Thayendanegea, otherwise named Joseph Brant, a full-blooded Mohawk, of the Wolf Tribe, the chosen chief of the confederacy of the Six Nations, who had crossed the great lake to see King George; to boast th
Halifax (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
a to one of the least, where the troops were in part kept on shipboard, stived up one upon another, in part encamped on ground deeply covered with snow; where the officers and refugees, many of whom were almost penniless, suffered every extortion, and paid sixfold price for the meanest shelter over their heads; and where he found less forage and provisions for the king's troops than he left behind him, at Boston, for Washington's army. He gave out that his object was the strengthening of Halifax; but on the third of the preceding December, 1775, he had written home, that that place was in perfect security. He offered the excuse that he wanted an opportunity for the exercise of his troops in line; and was it for that end that troops, whose destination was New York, were carried six hundred miles out of their way, as though there had been no place for parade but in Nova Scotia? A chosen British army, with chosen officers, equipped with every thing essential to war, sent to correct
Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
ress had strangely lavished its resources on the equipment of a navy; leaving him in such dearth of the materials of war, that he was compelled to look for them in every direction, and at one time had even asked if something could be spared him from the hoped-for acquisitions of Montgomery. Having no permanent army, and unable to enlist for the year a sufficient number of soldiers to defend his lines, he was obliged to rely for two months on the service of three regiments of militia from Connecticut, one from New Hampshire, and six from Massachusetts; but at the same time, with all the explicitness and force that his experience, his dangers, and his trials could suggest, he set before congress the ruinous imperfections of their mili- Chap. LIX.} 1776. Feb. tary system. To the vast numbers of mercenary troops that were to come over in spring to reenforce his enemy, he could indulge no hope of opposing any thing better than fleeting bands of undisciplined men, ill-clad, and poorly a
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 19
; the courtiers were wishing Boston and all New England sunk to the very bottom of the sea. At ae British had no choice but to dislodge the New England farmers or retreat. Left very much to himain, we hope to see these bad children, the New England people, chastised. The Indians have alwayswhich was Chap. LIX.} 1776. Mar. proposed, New England was to be spared the least. The second n rejoiced with exceeding joy at seeing this New England Zion once more a quiet habitation; they cale affection and esteem of my countrymen. New England was always true to Washington; the whole mdieval aristocracy; and the whole number of New England men killed in the siege after Washington toand was less than twenty; the liberation of New England cost altogether less than two hundred livesless victory. Within the borders of four New England states, permanent peace with self-governmenry; in the happy development of its powers, New England has calmed the passions that were roused by
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
service of three regiments of militia from Connecticut, one from New Hampshire, and six from Massachusetts; but at the same time, with all the explicitness and force that his experience, his dangers, the hope to bring the enemy out and force them to offer battle. To that end the council of Massachusetts, at his request, called in the militia of the nearest towns. The engineer employed to devisno accommodation, short of the acknowledgment of the right of taxation and the submission of Massachusetts to the law for altering its charter; and Mansfield ridiculed the idea of suspending hostiliteemed as if the old century was holding out its hand to the new, and the puritan ancestry of Massachusetts returning to bless the deliverer of their children. On the twenty ninth, the two branchesernment was from this time substantially confirmed. And who now, even in the mother land of Massachusetts, does not rejoice at this achievement of a people which so thoroughly represented the middli
Roxbury, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
arch, the firing was renewed with greater vehemence than before from Cobble Hill, now Somerville, from Lechmere's Point, now East Cambridge, and from a battery in Roxbury, and was returned with such zeal by the British, that a continued roar of cannon and mortars was heard from seven o'clock till daylight. As soon as it had begun, arrogance of the ministry had been defeated with contemptuous scorn, Washington gained possession of Nook Hill, and with it the power of opening the highway from Roxbury to Boston. At the appearance of this work, the British retreated precipitately; the army, about eight thousand in number, and more than eleven hundred refugees, , and Quincy, and Gardner, and Warren? Would that they, and all the martyrs of Lexington and Bunker Hill, had lived to gaze on the receding sails! Troops from Roxbury at once moved into Boston, and others from Cambridge crossed over in boats. Everywhere appeared marks of hurry in the flight of the British; among other stores,
Lake George, Fla. (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
iled away the time in their comfortable quarters, without a thought of danger, awaiting early summer, and large reinforcements, preparatory to their removal to New York. The possession of Dorchester Heights would give Washington the command of Boston and of a large Chap. LIX.} 1776. Feb. part of the harbor. Ill supplied as he was with powder, and having no resource for artillery but in the captures made from the enemy by privateers and the cannon which had been dragged overland from Lake George, he still made the necessary arrangements to occupy the position, in the hope to bring the enemy out and force them to offer battle. To that end the council of Massachusetts, at his request, called in the militia of the nearest towns. The engineer employed to devise and superintend the works was Rufus Putnam; and the time chosen for their erection was the eve of the anniversary of the Boston massacre. To Mar. harass the enemy and divert attention, a heavy cannonade and bombardment of
Nook Hill (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
m the American commander in chief, who continued to strengthen his lines, drew nearer and nearer to his enemy, and used his artillery sparingly only from want of ammunition. On the night following the ninth, a strong detachment began a fort on Nook Hill, which commanded Boston Neck; but some of the men having imprudently lighted a fire, the British, with their cannon and mortars, were able to interrupt the work; and yet as Washington did not abandon his design, Howe was compelled to hasten hisroposed, New England was to be spared the least. The second night after this last effort in the British parliament to restrain the impetuous arrogance of the ministry had been defeated with contemptuous scorn, Washington gained possession of Nook Hill, and with it the power of opening the highway from Roxbury to Boston. At the appearance of this work, the British retreated precipitately; the army, about eight thousand in number, and more than eleven hundred refugees, began their embarkation
Dorchester, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
they flew by, were the most eventful of his life; after nine months of intolerable waiting, a crisis was at hand, but every thing was prepared to ensure his success; and as he raised the intrenchments of American independence on the heights of Dorchester, he had a happiness of mind till then unknown to him during the siege. The night, though cold, was not severely so; the temperature was the fittest that could be for out-door work; the haze that denotes a softening of the air hung round the baaid Admiral Shuldham, I cannot keep a ship in the harbor. A council of war was called, and it was determined to assault the Americans. Washington had provided for the contingency; and had the British made a vigorous sally against the party at Dorchester, the Americans had floating batteries and boats ready to carry four thousand men into Boston. All day long the neighboring hills which commanded a view of the scene, were crowded with spectators, who watched the bustle, hurry, and alarm in the
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