....
Success of General Sumpter.... He is defeated.

CHAPTER VII.

Distress in the American camp.... Expedition against Staten Island....
Requisitions on the states.... New scheme of finance.... Committee
of congress deputed to camp.... Resolution to make up depreciation of
pay.... Mutiny in the line of Connecticut.... General Knyphausen
enters Jersey.... Sir Henry Clinton returns to New York.... Skirmish at
Springfield.... Exertions to strengthen the army.... Bank established in
Philadelphia.... Contributions of the ladies.... Farther proceedings of
the states.... Arrival of a French armament in Rhode Island.... Changes
in the quartermaster's department.... Enterprise against New York
abandoned.... Naval superiority of the British.

CHAPTER VIII.

Treason and escape of Arnold.... Trial and execution of Major Andre....
Precautions for the security of West[Pg vi] Point.... Letter of General
Washington on American affairs.... Proceedings of congress respecting
the army.... Major Talmadge destroys the British stores at Coram.... The
army retires into winter quarters.... Irruption of Major Carleton into
New York.... European transactions.

CHAPTER IX.

Transactions in South Carolina and Georgia.... Defeat of Ferguson....
Lord Cornwallis enters North Carolina.... Retreat out of that state....
Major Wemys defeated by Sumpter.... Tarleton repulsed.... Greene
appointed to the command of the Southern army.... Arrives in camp....
Detaches Morgan over the Catawba.... Battle of the Cowpens.... Lord
Cornwallis drives Greene through North Carolina into Virginia.... He
retires to Hillsborough.... Greene recrosses the Dan.... Loyalists under
Colonel Pyle cut to pieces.... Battle of Guilford.... Lord Cornwallis
retires to Ramsay's mills.... To Wilmington.... Greene advances
to Ramsay's mills.... Determines to enter South Carolina.... Lord
Cornwallis resolves to march to Virginia.

CHAPTER X.

Virginia invaded by Arnold.... He destroys the stores at Westham and
at Richmond.... Retires to Portsmouth.... Mutiny in the Pennsylvania
line.... Sir H. Clinton attempts to negotiate with the mutineers....
They compromise with the civil government.... Mutiny in the Jersey
line.... Mission of Colonel Laurens to France.... Propositions to
Spain.... Recommendations relative to a duty on imported and prize
goods.... Reform in the Executive departments.... Confederation
adopted.... Military transactions.... Lafayette detached to
Virginia...