The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-06-20

fer OF pardon either to withdraw with
In tho British lines or to take the oath
OF allegiance TO the United States.
Men loved to tell afterwards how
Frederick the Great had said 1t was
the moat brilliant campaign OF the
century.
Congress took steps before the win
ter was over TO secure long enlist
ments. and substitute a veritable army
for the three months ievies with which
Washington had hitherto been strug-
Cling to make shift.
Pledges His Private Fortune.
After the affair ct Trenton. Wash
ington had been obliged to pledge his
own private fortune for their pay to
induce the men whose terms OF enlist
ment were to expire on New Years
day--more than half his force--to stay
with him but few weeks more, till his
plan should be executed. Now he was
authorized to raise regiments enlisted
TIL the war should end. and to exer-
else almost dictatorial powers In
everything that might affect the disci-
pline. provisioning, and success of his
army.
There was need, for the year wit
messed lighting OF tremendous conse-
duence.
Brave British Plans.
The British struck for nothing less
than complete possession OF the whole
state OF New York, throughout the val
leys OF the Hudson and the Mohawk.
General Howe, who had about twenty
thousand men In New York city, was
to move up the Hudson; General Bur
goyne, with eight thousand men. from
Canada down Lake Champlain; Colo
mel St Leger. with small but sufii-
Client force, down into the valley OF the
Mohawk, striking from Oswego, on
Ontario; and the colonies were to be
cut in twain. New England hopelessly
separated from her confederates. by
the converging sweep OF three armies,
nggregating more than thlrty-three
thousand men.
But only the coast country. 1t turned
out. was tenable ground for British
troops.
Tlconderoga Falls.
Sir Guy Carleton had attempted
Champlaln out OF Canada the year be-
fore, and had gone back to Quebec
without touching Ticonderga. so dis
concerted had he been by the price
he had had to pay for his passage up
the lake to small force and an ex-
temporized fleet under Benedict Arm
old
This time Burgoyne, with his splen-
did army, made short work of Ticon-
deroga (July, IT'D. and drove Cen
eral Schuyler and his army back to
their posts beyond the Hudson; but
the farther he got from his base upon
the lake into the vast forests OF that
wide frontier. the more certainly did
he approach disaster.
No succor came. st. Leger was baf-
fed. and sent In panic back the way
he had come
Howe did not ascend the river. The
country swarmed with gathering mi
litia. They would not volunteer for
distant campaigns but this invading
host. marching by their very homes
into the deep forest, reused them and
tempted them as they had been reused
| at Concord. and they gathered at Its
rear and upon It's TANKS as they had
run togethar to invest Boston.
A Thousand men Burgoyne felt
Obliged TO les 10 In garrison at Ticon-
deroga; a thousand more. sent to Ben
nington to seize the stores there. were
overwhelmed and taken august 16l
Quite twenty thousand provincials
presently beset him. and he had but
six thousand left wherewith to save
himself
Ho crossed the river. for he still