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The conflict was prolonged only until the British cavalry could return from pursuing the fugitives. Their sabres gave the finishing stroke to the affair. De Kalb had fallen under eleven wounds, and nothing remained, but flight, to save this gallant body from the mortification of surrender on the field of battle.
One of his old neighbors, named Jones, rode into De Kalb one day, and was accosted by on e of the returned Border Ruffians with "We've got Caleb May this time; got his head on a ten-foot pole." "Anybody killed?" queried Mr. Jones. "Oh, no." "Anybody hurt?" "No." "Then it's a lie!" responded Mr. Jones. "I know Caleb May well enough to know that when you get him somebody 's going to get hurt." Mr.
Lafayette and Kalb, with the Poles, Kosciuszko and Pulaski, who had come some time before, and the German Steuben, who came in the following December, were the five most eminent foreigners who received commissions in the Continental army.
On arriving at Albany he found no preparations made for the expedition. Nothing which had been promised being in readiness, he abandoned the enterprise as impracticable. Some time afterward Congress also determined to relinquish it, and Washington was authorized to recall both Lafayette and De Kalb. While the army lay at Valley Forge the Baron Steuben arrived in camp.
I have received a letter from the board and a resolve of congress,~ by which you are directed to recall me and the Baron de Kalb, whose presence is deemed absolutely necessary to your army.
The day after receiving intelligence of the evacuation of fort Mifflin, General Washington deputed Generals De Kalb, and Knox, to confer with General Varnum and the officers at fort Mercer on the practicability of continuing to defend the obstructions in the channel, to report thereon, and to state the force which would be necessary for that purpose.
Finding his determination unalterable, he made him acquainted with the Baron De Kalb, who the count knew was about to embark for America an officer of experience and merit who, as is well known, fell at the battle of Camden.
A council of war was called: in which De Kalb advised that the army should fall back to Rugeley's mills, and there, in a good position, wait to be attacked. But Gates not only rejected this excellent counsel, but threw out suspicions that it originated from fear.
WORM. While your excellency takes care of him, and of the fiddler's arrest, I will go and indite the aforesaid letter. Do so; and, as soon as it is ready, bring it hither for my perusal. See this arrest executed without a moment's delay, and let Marshal von Kalb be informed that I wish to see him immediately. SERVANT. The marshal's carriage has just stopped at your lordship's door.
The American cause had also been strengthened by the voluntary services of a number of foreign officers, who energetically drilled the American recruits and taught the revolutionary army the science of war as it was fought by the greatest military countries. Among these men was the Marquis de Lafayette, a gallant young French nobleman, and also Baron de Kalb and Von Steuben.
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