THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (Complete Edition In 2 Volumes). Fiske John

at Trenton, Dec. 26

       Cornwallis comes up to retrieve the disaster

       And thinks he has run down the “old fox”

       But Washington prepares a checkmate

       And again severs the British line at Princeton, Jan. 3

       General retreat of the British toward New York

       The tables completely turned

       Washington’s superb generalship

       CHAPTER VI SECOND BLOW AT THE CENTRE

       Carleton invades New York

       Arnold’s preparations

       Battle of Valcour Island, Oct. 11, 1776

       Congress promotes five junior brigadiers over Arnold, Feb. 19, 1777

       Philip Schuyler

       Horatio Gates

       Gates intrigues against Schuyler

       Gates visits Congress

       Charges against Arnold

       Tryon’s expedition against Danbury

       Arnold defeats Tryon at Ridgefield, April 27, 1777

       The military centre of the United States was the state of New York

       A second blow to be struck at the centre. The plan of campaign

       The plan was unsound

       Germain’s fatal error

       Too many unknown quantities

       Danger from New England ignored

       The dispatch that was never sent

       Burgoyne advances upon Ticonderoga

       Phillips seizes Mount Defiance

       St. Clair abandons Ticonderoga, July 5, 1777

       Battle of Hubbardton, July 7

       One swallow does not make a summer

       The king’s glee

       Wrath of John Adams

       Gates chiefly to blame

       Burgoyne’s difficulties begin

       Schuyler wisely evacuates Fort Edward

       Enemies gathering in Burgoyne’s rear

       Use of Indian auxiliaries

       Burgoyne’s address to the chiefs

       It is ridiculed by Burke

       The story of Jane McCrea

       The Indians desert Burgoyne

       Importance of Bennington; Burgoyne sends a German force against it

       Stark prepares to receive the Germans

       Battle of Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777

       The invading force annihilated

       Effect of the news; Burgoyne’s enemies multiply

       Advance of St. Leger upon Fort Stanwix

       Herkimer marches against him

       Herkimer’s plan

       Failure of the plan

       Thayendanegea prepares an ambuscade

       Battle of Oriskany, Aug. 6, 1777

       Retreat of the Tories

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