Lecture On the Life And Military Services of General James Clinton Read Before
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The campaign of the north also required the flower of the army. The con- duct of George Clinton and James Clinton in this defence received the approbation of Congress. During the greater part of 1778, General Clinton was sta- tioned at West Point, and for a portion of that year was en- gaged in throwing a chain across the Hudson to prevent the ascent of the river by the enemy's ships. The summer of that year has been rendered memorable upon the then fron- tiers, by reason of the massacres of Wy...oming and Cherry Valley, under armies of Indians and tories, led on by the Butlers and Brant. On the 16th of November, 1778, and just after the massacre at Cherry Valley, which occurred on the 11th of that month, General Washington wrote to Gene- ral Hand, acknowledging the receipt of his letter containing the information of the destruction of that place, and adds, " It is in the highest degree distressing, to have our frontiers so continually harassed by this collection of banditti under Brant and Butler.
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