Life of George Washington: Embracing Anecdotes Illustrative of His Character ..
Life of George Washington: Embracing Anecdotes Illustrative of His Character ..
Weld, H. Hastings (Horatio Hastings), 1811-1888
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Cornwallis heard of this, and determined to prevent it. He was so 120 LIFE OF confident of success, that he wrote, in a letter which was intercepted, " the boy cannot escape me. " But Lafayette moved with so much judgment and quick- ness, that his confident enemy was soon convinced he could not overtake him, or prevent his being joined by the expected troops, and he gave up the pursuit to wait for his return, u When Lafayette received the expected reinforce- ments, he turned, and was soon withi...n a few miles of Cornwallis, who, suspecting that he intended se- curing some military stores that had been sent up the James river to Albemarle Court House, placed troops in a situation to attack him on the road which he supposed he would take. Lafayette anticipated this, and in the night opened an old road, which had been long unused, by which he marched quietly to his destination ; and in the morning, when Cornwallis had expected to have him in his power, he had the mortification of discovering that he had passed by, and was in a situation in which he could not be at- tacked.
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