The Life of George Washington : With Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honourable to Himself And Exemplary to His Young Countrymen
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The victors returned with 400 prisoners ; the bayonet had stop- ped 120 on the field. But they fed not alone. The gallant Mercer, and 63 of his brave countrymen, sleep with therm But the strife of the heroes was but for a moment ; and they have forgotten their wounds. Together now, >hey feast in Paradise, and when meet their eyes of love, their joys are not dashed by the remembrance of the past. 1 he British officers gave Washington full credit for such fine strokes of generalship, and began to... look thoughtful whenever his name was mentioned. The enemy now (January 15th) drew in all their forces to winter-quarters at Brunswick* where Wash- ington continued to thin their numbers by cutting off their foraging parties ; so that every load of hay, or dish of turnips they got, w*as at the price of blood. h 2 90 LIFE OF WASHINGTON. Thus gloriously, in ten days, was turned the tide of victory in favour of America, by him whom Hea- ven, in mercy not to America alone, but to Britain, and to the world, had raised up to found here a wide empire of liberty and virtue.
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