Chapter 18:
The complot of Sir Henry Clinton and Arnold.1780.
Desultory movements of the British and Ameri-Chap. XVIII.} 1780. |
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can troops in the North during the winter of 1780 were baffled by unwonted cold and deep snows.
The Hudson and the East river were covered with solid ice, but Knyphausen provided for the safety of New York by forming battalions of the loyal inhabitants and refugees.
Besides; the American army, whose pay was in arrear and whom congress could not provide with food, was too feeble to hazard an attack.
In May the continental troops between the Chesapeake and Canada amounted only to seven thousand men; in the first week of June, those under the command of Washington, present and fit for duty, numbered but three thousand seven hundred and sixty.
On the twenty-eighth of May, the official report
of the surrender of Charleston was received.1 The
1 Journal desjenigen: was sich unter dem an den Generallieutenant von Kniephausen übertrage nen Commando ereignet hat.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1874.
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