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Under such circumstances, a strong sympathy was excited in her behalf. Yet there were those among the Whigs who were inclined to enforce the laws of the state against her, whereby she would be compelled to withdraw within the lines of the enemy. In this family Colonel Burr became intimate in 1777, and in 1782 married the widow Prevost. Philadelphia, November 8th, 1778.
The record of that life expressed in bold stands thus: 1767 Born May Eleventh. 1776 Post-rider between Boston and Quincy. 1778 -At school in Paris. 1780 At school in Leyden. 1781 Private Secretary to Minister to Russia. 1787 -Graduated at Harvard. 1794 Minister at The Hague. 1797 Married Louise Catherine Johnson, of Maryland. 1797 Minister at Berlin. 1802 Member of Massachusetts State Senate. 1803 United States Senator. 1806 Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard 1809 Minister to Russia. 1811 Nominated and confirmed by Senate as Judge of Supreme Court of the United States; declined. 1814 Commissioner at Ghent to treat for peace with Great Britain. 1815 Minister to Great Britain. 1817 Secretary of State. 1825 Elected President of the United States. 1830 Elected a Member of Congress, and represented the district for seventeen years. 1848 Stricken with paralysis February Twenty-first in the Capitol, and died the second day after.
Whatever deductions may be made for blunders, and for circumstances of every character which made the British campaign of 1777 abortive and disastrous, thus leading directly to the American alliance with France in 1778, the delay, with all that it involved, was obtained by the Lake campaign of 1776.
Another weapon used by his unscrupulous enemies, for the purpose of degrading him in the eyes of the American people, was the republication of a series of spurious letters, purporting to have been written by Washington. They were first published in London, in 1777, and republished in Rivington's Royal Gazette, in February, 1778.
He remained in this state of easy restraint from October, 1777, until June, 1778, when he meditated an escape. He cautiously broached his project to two young Kentuckians, then at Detroit, who had been taken with Boone at the Blue Licks, and had been purchased by the British. He found them as impatient as himself of captivity, and resolute to accompany him. He commenced instant preparations.
The cure seemingly considered his person soiled and his coif dishonored by the touch of a philosopher. He made the nurse give him a little brushing and went out with the Abbe Gautier. He expired, says Wagnierre, on the 30th of May, 1778, at about a quarter past 11 at night, with the most perfect tranquility.
In February, 1778, France made a treaty of alliance with us and sent over a fleet. Fearing this would attack New York, Clinton left Philadelphia with his army. Washington followed from Valley Forge, overtook the enemy at Monmouth, and fought a battle there. The British then went on to New York, while Washington stretched out his army from Morristown to West Point.
The Board of War reported on the 21 of January, 1778, that there were 900 privates and 300 officers in New York, prisoners, and that "the privates have been crowded all summer in sugar houses, and the officers boarded on Long Island, except about thirty, who have been confined in the Provost-Guard, and in most loathsome jails, and that since Oct. 1st, all those prisoners, both officers and privates, have been confined in prisons, prison ships, or the Provost."
In May, 1778, this little force started down the Ohio in flat boats, and landing just before they reached the Mississippi, marched northward against Kaskaskia, where the British commander of the entire district had his headquarters. Clark knew that his force was outnumbered by the garrison and that it would be necessary to surprise the town.
As a first step, the army in Philadelphia marched back to New York, attacked on its retreat by Washington at Monmouth on June 27, 1778. The American advance was badly handled by General Lee, and fell back before the British; but Washington in person rallied his men, resumed the attack, and held his position.
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