Memoirs of Washington
Memoirs of Washington
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" "Without great slaughter on our side, or cowardice on theirs, it is absolutely so. We therefore can do no more than keep them besieged, which they are, to all intents and purposes, as closely as any troops on earth can be, who have an opening to the sea.
'^ Our advanced works and theirs are within musket- shot We daily undergo a cannonade, which has done no injury to our works, and very little hurt to our men.
^^ These insults we are compelled to submit to for want of powder ; being obliged, ...except now and then giving them a shot, to reserve what we have for closer work than cannon distance." The levying of men, as it was the most urgent, S60 MEMOIBB OF WASHINOTOK. limL proved alfio the most tryiBg bnemefis of the whole siege, and, next to the scarcity of ammunition, caused the greatest anxiety and disappointment to Washington as commander-in-chief. To create an army out of raw re- cruits, and those taken from a population whose very motive in taking arms was to secure liberty, was enough to discourage any man on whom the responsibility rested ; and when it is considered that, for the sake of the despatch that was so necessary, it had been decided that any man enlisting fifty-nine recruits was entitled to become their captain, and that whoever succeeded in enlisting ten such companies had a right to be the colo- nel, the position of him whose duty it was to reduce this chaos of ignorance and inexperience to serviceable order and discipline, may be faintly conceived.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" "Without great slaughter on our side, or cowardice on theirs, it is absolutely so. We therefore can do no more than keep them besieged, which they are, to all intents and purposes, as closely as any troops on earth can be, who have an opening to the sea.
'^ Our advanced works and theirs are within musket- shot We daily undergo a cannonade, which has done no injury to our works, and very little hurt to our men.
^^ These insults we are compelled to submit to for want of powder ; being obliged, ...except now and then giving them a shot, to reserve what we have for closer work than cannon distance." The levying of men, as it was the most urgent, S60 MEMOIBB OF WASHINOTOK. limL proved alfio the most tryiBg bnemefis of the whole siege, and, next to the scarcity of ammunition, caused the greatest anxiety and disappointment to Washington as commander-in-chief. To create an army out of raw re- cruits, and those taken from a population whose very motive in taking arms was to secure liberty, was enough to discourage any man on whom the responsibility rested ; and when it is considered that, for the sake of the despatch that was so necessary, it had been decided that any man enlisting fifty-nine recruits was entitled to become their captain, and that whoever succeeded in enlisting ten such companies had a right to be the colo- nel, the position of him whose duty it was to reduce this chaos of ignorance and inexperience to serviceable order and discipline, may be faintly conceived.
What to read after Memoirs of Washington?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Caroline M Caroline Matilda Kirkland to read onlineMoreLess
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