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flumen Delawariense, huc illuc, disponebant, et eorum manipuli omnes in partes impùne ibant redibantque. Ut scaphas aut navigia nanciscerentur, incassùm elaboratum. Non-nullos, etiam, pontes, qui ab Americanis recedentibus modò rescissi fuerant, refecerunt, Bordentoniamque firmum manipulum præmiserunt. Id ideo fiebat, ut trajectus facilior, et Washingtonium vexandi facultas major esset, utpote qui, undeUnde, &c., “ whence he might be first attacked. ” primùm peteretur, omnino nesciebat. Putnam, Putnam, &c. Meanwhile Putnam, an American general, was sent by Washington, the commander (of the forces,) who should take charge of (to preside over) the defences and ramparts, that were to be made from the Schuylkill as far as the river Delaware. dux Americanus, interea, munitionibus aggeribusque à Schuylkill ad Delawarum usque flumen faciendis qui præesset, à Washingtonio imperatore missus est. Parva munimenta, ad vada custodienda, temerè Temere, “ at random, ” “ hastily. ”