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Updated: May 18, 2025
It was extremely late when we left the Chadds, and it is an extremely long and tiresome journey from Shepherd's Bush to Lambeth. Even to that belated meal we came in a very lounging and leisurely fashion.
Major Chadds and several old African soldiers joined the militia, and were by them supplied with arms. 'A good deal of skirmishing occurred between the militia and detached parties of the mutineers, which uniformly ended in the defeat of the latter.
It was the 25th of August that Howe landed his men and began moving toward Washington, who, lest the British should push by him, fell back from Wilmington, to a place called Chadds Ford on the Brandywine, where, on September 11, 1777, a battle was fought. The Americans were defeated and retreated in good order to Chester, and the next day Washington entered Philadelphia.
"The extraordinary thing," said Basil, ringing the bell, "is that he has not gone mad from excitement." The tall and angular figure of the eldest Miss Chadd blocked the doorway as the door opened. Two other Miss Chadds seemed in the same way to be blocking the narrow passage and the little parlour. There was a general sense of their keeping something from view.
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