Identifier: pennsylvaniacolo00fish (find matches)
Title: Pennsylvania, colony and commonwealth
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Fisher, Sydney George, 1856-1927. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia, H. T. Coates and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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. Driv-ing them back, Knyphausen secured himself on thewest side of Chadds Ford, and began, with great vigorand much display of force, to cannonade Washingtonsposition on the east side. It was only a ruse. The main part of the Britisharmy had started much earlier in the morning, made along detour to the northward, crossed the Brandywineat a ford so high up that it had been thought unneces-sary to guard it, and were marching down on theAmerican flank. The movement had been muchassisted by a dense fog. Washington, after having been amused by Knyphausenall morning, got word of the manoeuvre to the north ofhim about noon, and immediately decided to cross theBrandywine and attack Knyphausen with his full force.He could easily defeat him, and would then be in aposition to deal with the main body, that would bedemoralized by finding their enemy in a new positionand their ruse a failure. If this had been done, the course of history mighthave been very much altered. But before he could 338 fW.
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BATTLE FIELDS OF PHILADELPH1 War execute the movement, Washington got word fromGeneral Sullivan that the British were not coming bythe northward way, so he remained where he was. Theenemy were shortly upon him from both sides, and theday was lost. He retreated as best he could, ■— a fewof his men, under Armstrong, falling back to Chester,and the main body crossing the Schuylkill, andencamping in Germantown. The wounded were sentin all directions, and, among others, young Lafayette,with a ball in his leg, to the Moravians at Bethlehem. Immediately there was a great alarm and scatteringin Philadelphia. Cattle and horses were driven off;church-bells taken down and sunk in the river, orcarried away to hiding-places. The floating bridgeson the Schuylkill were removed; large vessels takenup the Delaware; small boats of all kinds hidden inthe Jersey creeks, and those that could not be takenaway burned. The public books and papers were takenup to Easton, on the Lehigh. The Whigs movedout

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