Excerpt from History of the United States, Vol. 3: From Aboriginal Times to Taft's Administration For the Americans the year 1781 opened gloom ily. The condition of the army was desperate no food, no pay, no clothing. Even the influence of Washington was not sufficient to quiet the grow ing discontent of the soldiery. On the first day Of January the whole Pennsylvania line, numbering nearly two thousand, mutinied, left their camp at Morristown, and marched toward Philadelphia. General Wayne, after trying in vain to ...
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Excerpt from History of the United States, Vol. 3: From Aboriginal Times to Taft's Administration For the Americans the year 1781 opened gloom ily. The condition of the army was desperate no food, no pay, no clothing. Even the influence of Washington was not sufficient to quiet the grow ing discontent of the soldiery. On the first day Of January the whole Pennsylvania line, numbering nearly two thousand, mutinied, left their camp at Morristown, and marched toward Philadelphia. General Wayne, after trying in vain to prevent the insurrection, went with his men, still hoping to control them. At Princeton they were met by two emissaries from Sir Henry Clinton, and were tempted with offers of money, clothing, and re lease from military service if they would desert the American standard. The mutinous patriots made answer by seizing the British agents and de livering them to General Wayne to be hanged as spies. For this deed the commissioners of Con gress, who now arrived, Offered the insurgents a large reward, but the reward was indignantly re fused. Washington, knowing how shamefully the army had been neglected by Congress, was not un willing that the mutiny should take its own course. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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