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Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ladelphia. Battle of the Brandywine. Washington had but eleven thousand effec-tive men with him, and was in no way pre-pared to undertake a campaign in the opencountry. Nevertheless, he advanced at onceto dispute the progress of the enemy, and byforced marches succeeded in reaching thevicinity of Wilmington before the arrival ofthe British. Upon examining the country hedecided to contest the passage of the Brandy-wine Creek, and stationed his army along itsleft bank. The British were advancing by the mainroad to Philadelphia, which crossed theBrandywine at Chadds Ford, and as Wash-ington supposed their main effort would be THE YEAR 1777. 417 made at this point, he stationed the greaterpart of his army to cover it. On the eleventhof September the British army reached thecreek. Howe ordered General Knyphausen Washington was deceived by the officer sentto ascertain if the enemy were threatening hisright, and was left in ignorance of Cornwallismovement until it was too late to prevent it.
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LAFAYETTE AND WASHINGTON. to make a feint at Chadds Ford as if he wereabout to force a passage, while he sent Corn-wallis with a strong column to pass the creekhigher up and turn the American right flank. This plan was successfully carried out.27 Being outflanked.the American army was com-pelled to fall back with a loss of twelve hundredmen The troops did not know they had suf-ered a reverse, but supposing they had merelyexperienced a check were in high spirits. 4i! THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Lafayette was wounded in this battle, andPulaski so greatly distinguished himself thathe was subsequently rewarded by Congresswith the rank of brigadier-general and thecommand of the cavalry. Sir William Howe did not push his advan-tage, but remained for two days near thebattle-field. Washington in the meantimeretreated to Chester, and then to the Schuyl-kill, which he crossed on the twelfth of Sep-tember, and proceeded to Germantown, wherethe army went into camp. The men were inexcellent spirits,

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