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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 66: (search)
and even indolent calm, were strained Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June 28. to their utmost tension, rode to visit his advanced guard between the rows. On the eastern and Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June 28. northern sides the palmetto wall was only seven feet high South Carolina; she came forth to the Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June 28. struggle from generous sympathy; and now the battie is tods that passed along the platform from Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June 28. officers and men. Shall I send for more powder? askedck on Haddrell's Point would have been Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June 28. still more desperate; though the commodore, at Clinton's ritish showed signs of weariness. The Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June 28. inhabitants of Charleston, whom the evening sea breeze cost aground at about four hundred yards Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June 28. from the fort. The Syren had got off; and so too had thee and the general long indulged in re- Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June 28. ciprocal criminations. Nothing remained for the army but
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 67: (search)
ly for two months; the troops lived from hand to mouth, often for days without meat, levying contributions of meal; the scattered army did not exceed four thousand men, three fourths of whom had never had the small pox; many of the officers were incompetent. While Arnold's whole thoughts were bent on June. making a safe retreat, the congress at Philadelphia, on the first day of June, in the helplessness of its zeal, resolved that six thousand militia be employed to Chap. LXVII.} 1776. June 28. reinforce the army in Canada, and to keep up the communication with that province; and called upon Massachusetts to make up half that number, Connecticut one quarter, New Hampshire and New York the rest. They also authorized the employment of Indians. On that same day the first division of the Brunswick troops under Riedesel arrived with Burgoyne at Quebec, and, with the regiments from Ireland and others, put into the hands of Carleton an army of nine thousand nine hundred and eighty f
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 70: (search)
ery embrace; the nursling of his country, the offspring of his time, he set about the work of a practical statesman, and his measures grew so naturally out of previous law and the facts of the past, that they struck deep root and have endured. From the fulness of his own mind, without consulting one single book, Jefferson drafted the declaration, submitted it separately to Franklin and to John Adams, accepted from each of them one or two verbal, unimportant corrections, and on the twenty eighth of June reported it to congress, which now on the second of July, immediately after the resolution of independence, entered upon its consideration. During the remainder of that day and the two next, the language, the statements, and the principles of the paper were closely scanned. In the indictment against George the Third, Jefferson had written: He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people