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Identifier: historictownsofm02powe (find matches)
Title: Historic towns of the middle states
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Powell, Lyman P. (Lyman Pierson), b. 1866, ed
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Middle Atlantic States Middle Atlantic States -- History
Publisher: New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ill and courage,Fraser rallied his men, and was forming asecond line of defence, when he fell mortallywounded. The sharp whistle of Morgan called hismen once more to action. They charged,while Poor and Larned attacked the centreand the right. The battle swayed back andforth through the great ravine. Another chargefrom Morgan and the British retreated totheir entrenchments. At this moment the im-patient Arnold, stung to madness by the slightsput upon him by Gates, dashed across thefield. He gathered the regiments under hisleadership by his enthusiasm, bravery, andvehemence. He broke through the lines ofentrenchments at Freemans Farm. Repulsedfor a moment, he assailed the left and chargedthe strong redoubt of Breyman which flankedthe British camp at the place now calledBurgoynes Hill. The patriot army, tiredwith hope and courage, crowded fearlessly upto the very mouth of the belching guns of then^doubt, won the final victory of the day, andthen, exhausted by the desperate fight, dropped
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GENERAL DANIEL MORGAN. 63 64 Saratoga down for a few hours rest before they tookpossession of the British camp. But there was no rest for the defeated arni).Silently and sullenly during these hours, theywithdrew from the works at Freemans Farm,and huddled closely together under the threeredoubts by the river. Here the women.Madam Riedesel, Lady Ackland, and others,trembled and wept over the dying Fraser.Here the hospital stood with its overflowingthrong of the wounded and the dead. Thegreat and princely army waited in doubt anddespair while their commander wavered inhis plans. Should he try to hold his danger-ous ground, should he risk another engage-ment, should he retreat ? The last course waschosen. On the following night a retreatbegan as the last minute-guns were firedmagnanimously by the Americans, in honorof Frasers funeral, which took place at sunset.The sun fell behind the heights upon whichthe exultant Americans lay ; heavy cloudsfollowed, and quickly after, amid the drenchi

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