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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: where we found his Majesty's ship Phoenix with several sail of merchant ships. At noon the 4th the signal was made for the whole fleet to weigh, when the Chatham, passing through the centre, was cheered by every ship. I do not remember seeing a more pleasing sight, which the fineness of the day greatly contributed to, more particularly as we expected we were immediately going to the attack of New York. We made the necessary preparations for landing, on our passage up; and at sunset anchored in Gravesend bay; but, for reasons only known to the commanders-in-chief, we put off the landing of the troops for this night. At day-light the 5th the signal was made to weigh, the Phcenix, Rose and Senegal leading the fleet through the Narrows, but the wind dying away obliged us again to anchor. At four o'clock the signal was once more made to weigh, and the fleet boats manned; at six we passed the Narrows amidst a very unsuccessful fire from the rebels, having killed but very few; at seven we landed the army on Staten Island without opposition, when two or three hundred of the enemy surrendered themselves prisoners of war to the first division of grenadiers. Frequent skirmishes daily happened till the latter end of this month, when the Phcenix, Rose and Trial passed the town of New York amidst an incessant and tremendous fire from the batteries of Red Hook, Panler's Hook, and the garrison of New York, which was as warmly returned by the ships, who performed this piece of service to the astonishment of General Washington and his army. The same day those ships passed the town, the Lord Viscount Howe arrived, and superseded Lord Shuldham as commander-in-chief in North America. The duty was very severe at this period, as we were frequently all night in guard boats, and1776 EXPEDITION TO NEW...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217962346
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 122
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217962343
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 231 gr


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