American army to Middlebrook.... Lord Cornwallis
skirmishes with Lord Stirling.... General Prescott surprised and
taken.... The British army embarks.

CHAPTER VIII.

General Washington commences his march to the Delaware.... Takes
measures for checking Burgoyne.... British army land at Elk River....
General Washington advances to Brandywine.... Retreat of Maxwell....
Defeat at Brandywine.... Slight skirmish near the White Horse, and
retreat to French Creek.... General Wayne surprised.... General Howe
takes possession of Philadelphia.... Removal of Congress to Lancaster.

CHAPTER IX.

Measures to cut off the communication between the British army and
fleet.... Battle of Germantown.... Measures to intercept supplies to
Philadelphia.... Attack on fort Mifflin.... On Red Bank.... The Augusta
blows up.... Fort Mifflin evacuated.... Fort Mercer evacuated.... The
British open the communication with their fleet.... Washington urged to
attack Philadelphia.... General Howe marches out to Chestnut Hill....
Returns to Philadelphia.... General Washington goes into winter
quarters.

CHAPTER X.

Inquiry into the conduct of General Schuyler.... Burgoyne appears
before Ticonderoga.... Evacuation of that place,... of Skeensborough....
Colonel Warner defeated.... Evacuation of fort Anne.... Proclamation of
Burgoyne.... Counter-proclamation of Schuyler.... Burgoyne approaches
fort Edward.... Schuyler retires to Saratoga,... to Stillwater....
St. Leger invests fort Schuyler.... Herkimer defeated.... Colonel Baum
detached to Bennington.... is defeated.... Brechman defeated.... St.
Leger abandons the siege of fort Schuyler.... Murder of Miss M'Crea....
General Gates takes command.... Burgoyne encamps on the heights of
Saratoga.... Battle of Stillwater.... Burgoyne retreats to Saratoga....
Capitulates.... The British take forts Montgomery and Clinton.... The
forts Independence and Constitution evacuated by the Americans....
Ticonderoga evacuated by the British.

CHAPTER XI.

Defects in the Commissary departments.... Distress of the army at Valley
Forge.... The army subsisted by impressments.... Combination in congress
against General Washington.... Correspondence between him and General
Gates.... Distress of the army for clothes.... Washington's exertions to
augment the army.... Congress sends a committee to camp.... Attempt to
surprise Captain Lee.... Congress determines on a second expedition to
Canada.... Abandons it.... General