Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, Vol. 22 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, Vol. 22 The surrender of Lord Cornwallis, on October 19, 1781, and the meeting, in Paris, in the spring of 1782, of Envoys from the United States and England, to arrange terms of peace between the two countries, produced a feeling of reasonable confidence that the Revolution was drawing to a close. Thus the chief problems before the Congress were no longer mainly of a military character. The Army was maintained on a war basis as a precautionary measure, but arrangements were made for its reduction. Here, however, the difficulty which presented itself on every side arose to embarrass the Government. To raise an Army without regular funds with which to pay for it had been a difficult task; but to reduce or disband it without funds to pay for the services it had performed was even more difficult, and might be dangerous as well. General Washington reported to Congress that the Army was becoming very discontented. A serious incident occurred, which threatened to interrupt the passive attitude of the American and British forces. On April 29 a letter, of April 20, from General Washington was read, reporting that Captain Joshua Huddy, commanding a small body of American troops, had been captured and hanged by Tory refugees in Monmouth County, New Jersey, under Captain Richard Lippincott. Captain Charles Asgill, a British officer of rank equal with Huddy´s, a prisoner of war, was selected by lot to suffer the same fate as Huddy, in retaliation. His fate hung in the balance while General Washington and Sir Guy Carleton were in correspondence over the question of the guilt and punishment of Lippincott. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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