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Francis Glass, Washingtonii Vita (ed. J.N. Reynolds), CAPUT OCTAVUM. (search)
g Jersey from New-York. septentrionalem Washingtonius trajecit. Ad Gulielmum Livingstonium Cæsareæ Novæ Gubernatorem literas scripsit, in quibus militiam ad fines tutandos evocari, pecora et omnia, quæ ad victum pertinerent, ab orâ maritimâ amoveri jussit suasitque. Sub hoc tempus, propugnaculum Washingtonium expugnatum, præsidiumque, quod ex ampliùs duobus hominum millibus constabat, unà cum legionis tribunoLegionis tribuno. Colonel Magaw, the commanding officer of Fort Washington, on York Island, was certainly censurable in surrendering that post; as, by a gallant defence, it was tenable against any force which the British could well detach, at that time, against it. Magaw, à Britannis captum. Nullum, præter hoc, præsidium insulâ Eboracesi erat Americanis, idque diutiùs tenere, vacuandiVacuandi, &c., “ was especially repugnant to the plan of evacuating and retreating, adopted, at that time, by Washington. ” recipiendique rationi maxime contrarium fuit. Magna Washington