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THIS BOOK, VOLUME 12 IN THE CHRONICLES OF AMERICA
SERIES, ALLEN JOHNSON, EDITOR, WAS DONATED TO
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WASHINGTON AND HIS COMRADES IN ARMS, A CHRONICLE
OF THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
BY GEORGE M. WRONG

Volume 12 in the Chronicles of America Series. Abraham Lincoln
Edition.

PREFATORY NOTE
The author is aware of a certain audacity in undertaking, himself a
Briton, to appear in a company of American writers on American
history and above all to write on the subject of Washington. If excuse is
needed it is to be found in the special interest of the career of
Washington to a citizen of the British Commonwealth of Nations at the
present time and in the urgency with which the editor and publishers
declared that such an interpretation would not be unwelcome to
Americans and pressed upon the author a task for which he doubted his
own qualifications. To the editor he owes thanks for wise criticism. He
is also indebted to Mr. Worthington Chauncey Ford, of the
Massachusetts Historical Society, a great authority on Washington,
who has kindly read the proofs and given helpful comments. Needless
to say the author alone is responsible for opinions in the book.
University of Toronto, June 16, 1920.
CONTENTS
I. THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF

II. BOSTON AND QUEBEC
III. INDEPENDENCE
IV. THE LOSS OF NEW YORK
V. THE LOSS OF PHILADELPHIA
VI. THE FIRST GREAT BRITISH DISASTER
VII. WASHINGTON AND HIS COMRADES AT VALLEY FORGE
VIII. THE ALLIANCE WITH FRANCE AND ITS RESULTS
IX. THE WAR IN THE SOUTH
X. FRANCE TO THE RESCUE
XI. YORKTOWN
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

WASHINGTON AND HIS COMRADES IN ARMS

CHAPTER I
. THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
Moving among the members of the second Continental Congress,
which met at Philadelphia in May, 1775, was one, and but one, military
figure. George Washington alone attended the sittings in uniform. This
colonel from Virginia, now in his forty-fourth year, was a great
landholder, an owner of slaves, an Anglican churchman, an aristocrat,
everything that stands in contrast with the type of a revolutionary
radical. Yet from the first he had been an outspoken and
uncompromising champion of the, colonial cause. When the tax was
imposed on tea he had abolished the