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Title: The guide book to historic Germantown
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Jenkins, Charles Francis, 1865-1951 Site and Relic Society of Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Publisher: Germantown
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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is probable that the shiftingfog clouds rolling in waves would now and then lift and give attimes a wider range of vision, but soon the smoke of battle andof burning stubble fields, hay and other combustibles, added tothe fog, made a darkness in which there was no discoveringfriend from foe. To prevent mistaking each other, the soldiersand officers had been ordered to place a piece of white paper intheir hats, but this precaution if obeyed was ineffective ; to makematters worse, Thomas Paine, who was present at the Battle,says that the Americans were rendered suspicious of eachother by many of them being dressed in red. General Sullivans division formed on the right of the road,which would be the west, and General Wayne on the east.Sullivan was the first to come into action, attacking the picketat the Allen house and killing all the sentries, he carried all be-fore him and drove the enemy in confusion until at last they,with reinforcements from below, were able to make a stand on 156
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Old Doors of Chew House 157 HISTORIC GERMANTOWN both sides of the Main Street at the Mermonite Church belowTulpohocken Street. To the east of the road General Greenealso pushed on and passed the Chew House. In the meantime Washington, with the reserve divisions,had arrived at the Billmyer House, about which time it wasdiscovered that six companies of the 40th Regiment under com-mand of Colonel Musgrave, during the retreat from MountAiry, had taken refuge in the Chew House, and barricad-ing the doors and windows of the first story were keeping upa steady fire from the upper windows upon the road and itsvicinity. Both Sullivans and Greenes divisions had passed thehouse before its occupancy by the British had been discovered.After a council of war held near the Billmyer House Washing-ton ordered the attack upon the Chew House by MaxwellsBrigade of the reserve and sent the other brigade of the reserve,Nashs, to strengthen Sullivans line at Washington Lane. Meanwhile General Greene had com

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