rating the Lord's Supper--Encamped at
Germantown--British Fleet appears--Washington meets Lafayette,
and appoints him on his Staff--Some Account of the Young
Nobleman 389

XXI.

DEFEAT AND VICTORY.

Plans of the British for 1777--A Temperance Officer--Battle of
Bennington--Grand Victory--Battle at Fort Schuyler--Indian
Butchery--Miss McCrea murdered by them--Battle of
Brandywine--Lafayette wounded--Providential Care--Battle of
Germantown, and Results--Washington's Daring--Forts reduced, and
the Enemy take Philadelphia--Burgoyne captured, and his
Supplies--Kosciusko--The British revelling in
Philadelphia--Washington in Winter Quarters at Valley
Forge--Famine in Camp, and Great Sufferings--Washington feeding
a Soldier--A Conspiracy against the Chief--Dr.
Craik--Hamilton--Mrs. Washington in Camp--Her Pity for
Soldiers--Washington engaged in Prayer--Baron
Stuben--Pulaski--Exchange of Distinguished Prisoners--Alliance
with France--Council of War--British evacuate
Philadelphia--Pursued--Battle of Monmouth--A Thrilling Incident,
and Dr. Griffith--The Fifer Boy--Lee's Cowardly
Conduct--Hamilton--Washington's Exposure to Death--Grand
Victory--Enemy retreat--Lee Court-martialed--Arrival of French
Fleet--Winter Quarters at Middlebrook--Cruelties of the
Enemy--Massacres of Cherry Valley and Wyoming--Scenes at close
of 1779--British Cruelty to Prisoners in the "Sugar House" and
"Jersey Prison-ship" 405

XXII.

CLOSE OF THE WAR.

Treason of Arnold--How Accomplished--Capture and Execution
of Andre--Arnold serving in the British Army--Ravages in
Virginia--Attacking Mount Vernon--Washington goes South--Calls
at Mount Vernon--Joins Lafayette at Williamsburg--Attacks
Cornwallis at Yorktown--Bombardment--Governor Nelson--Taking
of Two Redoubts--Washington's Narrow Escape--Surrender of
Cornwallis--Washington's Order--Fruits of the Victory--The
Formal Delivery of Cornwallis' Sword--Delivery of Flags--Divine
Service--Sickness and Death of his Step-son--Sad Scene--Help of
French Fleet--God for Small Battalions again--Washington's
War-horse--News of Cornwallis' Surrender in Philadelphia--Action
of Congress, and Day of Thanksgiving--News in
England--Washington's Plan