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Title: Death of Pulaski.jpg
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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GENERAL BENJAMIN LINCOLN. the Eastern and Middle States. One of these,which was being built at Stony Point, wasabandoned. The work on Verplancks Point,on the east side of the Hudson, immediatelyopposite, was compelled to surrender earlyin June, Returning to New York, Clinton sentGeneral Tryon with twenty-five hundredmen to plunder the coast of Long IslandSound. He plundered New Haven, burnedFairfield and Norwalk, and committed otheroutrages at Sag Harbor, on Long Island. In ,t(lri.^4k~ ..v^^
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442 GALLANT CHARGE OF COUNT PULASKL AID FROM ABROAD. 443 cue jouise of a few days this inhuman wretchburned two hundred and fifty dwelling-houses, five churches, and one hundred andtwenty-five barns and stores. Many of theinhabitants were cruelly murdered, and anumber of women were outraged by theBritish troops. Tryon would have carriedhis outrages further had he not been recalledto New York by Clinton, who feared thatWashington was about to attack him. The loss of Stony Ponit was a seriousblow to Washington, as it compelled him toestablish a new line of communicationbetween the opposite sides of theHudson by a longer and more tediousroute through the Highlands. Hereceived, therefore, the recapture of thepost from the British at all hazards.The British had greatly strengthenedthe fort, which the Americans had leftunfinished, and the only way in whichit could be captured was hy a surprise.It was a desperate undertaking, andWashington proposed to General An-thony Wayne to attempt it. Wa

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