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Title: Ohio archæological and historical quarterly
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Subjects: History Archaeology
Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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Theywere put in their place in a single night. When the sun went down on Boston on the 4th of .JarchWashington was at Cambridge, and Dorchester Heights asnature or the husbandman had left them in the autumn.When Sir William Howe rubbed his eyes on the morningof the 5th he saw through the heavy mists the entrench-ments, on which, he said, the rebels had done more workin a night than his whole army would have done in amonth. He wrote to Lord Dartmouth that it must havebeen the employment of at least twelve thousand men.His own effective force, including seamen, was but abouteleven thousand. Washington had but fourteen thousandfit for duty. Some of our officers, said the AnnualRegister — I suppose Kdmund Burke was the writer — acknowledged that the expedition with which theseworks were thrown up, with their sudden and unexpectedappearance, recalled to their minds the wonderful storiesof enchantment and invisible agency which are so fre-quent in the Eastern Romances. Howe was a man of
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■■/V/r//// ^ JTy^Uy 1//^UT_JZ<n,<^ Oration of Hon. George F. Hoar, 33 spirit. He took the prompt resolution to attempt to dis-lodge the Americans the next night before their workswere made impregnable. Earl Percy, who had learnedsomething of Yankee quality at Bunker Hill and Lexing-ton, was to command the assault. But the Power thatdispersed the Armada baffled all the plans of the Britishgeneral. There came * a dreadful storm at night, whichmade it impossible to cross the bay until the Americanworks were perfected. We take no leaf from the pure chaplet of Washingtonslame when we say that the success of the first great mili-tary operaton of the Revolution was due to Rufus Putnam.The Americans, under Israel Putnam, marched into Bos-ton, drums beating and colors flying. The veteran Britisharmy, aided by a strong naval force, soldier and sailor^Englishman and Tory, sick and well, bag and baggage,got out of Boston before the strategy of Washington, theengineering of Putnam, and t

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