The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1913-05-30
Brave British Plans.

| 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 a small but sufii-
cient 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,
aggregating more than thirty-three
| thousand men.
But only the coast country, it turned
out, was tenable ground for British
troops.
Ticonderoga Falls.
| Sir Guy Carleton had attempted
| Champlain 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 Gen
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 together to invest Boston.
A thousand men Burgoyne felt
obliged to leave in garrison at Ticon-
deroga; thousand more, sent to Ben
nington to seize the stores there, were
overwhelmed and taken august 16).
Quite twenty thousand provinciais
presently beset him, and he had but
six thousand left wherewith to save
himself
He crossed the river, for he still
expected Howe; and there was stub
born fighting about Saratoga (Septem-
Der 10, October y, in which Arnold
once more made his name in battle.
But the odds were too great; Bur
goyne's supplies were cut off, his
troops beaten; there was nothing for
it but capitulation October I'D.
. He had been trapped and taken by
a rising of the country.
Washington outgenerals Howe.
Howe had not succored him, part
ly because he lacked judgment and
capacity, partly because Washington
had thwarted him at every turn. From
his position at Morristown, Washing
ton could send reinforcements to the
north or recall them at will, without
serious delay; and Howe, in his hest
tation, gave him abundant time to do
what he would.
It was Sir Williams purpose TO oc-
cupy the early sumner, ere Burgoyne
should need him, in an attack on Phil
adelphia On the 18th of June, &C
cordingly, he threw a force Of eighteen
thousand men into New Jersey.
But Washington foiled him at each
attempt to advance by hanging always
upon bis flank in such a position that
he could neither be safely ignored nor
forced to fight; and the prudent Howe,
abandoning the march, withdrew once
more to New York.
British Come to Philadel phia.
But he did not abandon his project
against Philadelphia.
He deemed it the capital Of the
insurgent confederacy, and wished to
discredit congress and win men Of
doubtful allegiance to his standard by
it's capture; and he reckoned upon
some advantage in drawing Washing
ton after him to the southwark, away
from Burgoyne's field of operations
in the north. Though July had come,
therefore, and Burgoyne must need
him presently, he put his eighteen
thousand men aboard the fleet and
carried them by sea to the Chesa-
peake.
! Washington Puzzled.
Washington was sorely puzzled. Re
had taken it for granted that Howe
would go north, and he had gone
south!
'Howe's in a manner abandoning
Burgoyne is so unaccountable," he
said, that l cannot help casting my
eyes continually behind me-" and he
followed very cautiously, ready upon
the moment to turn back, lest the
movement should prove feint.
But there was no mistake. Howe
entered the Delaware, and, being
frightened thence by reports of OBJ
structions In the river, went all the
long four hundred niles about the
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