The Great Issue
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Great Issue: An Address Delivered Before the Union Campaign Club, of East Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday Evening, Oct; 25, 1864 Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: In thanking your Club, as I beg leave to do most cordially, for the honour you have done me in asking me to follow the speakers whose eloquence has already consecrated your campaign quarters to those principles of Nationality and Freedom upon which our Fathers of the Revolution laid the basis of our Republic, I cannot forget the interesting historic associations that cluster around the site you have so happily selected. Close to this spot, eighty years ago, stood Fort Putnam, afterwards called Fort Greene, constituting an important point in the line of intrenchments which, extending on the one side to the Navy Yard, and on the other to Freek´s Mill Pond, had been thrown up to protect our slender army from the British forces of Lord Percy and Lord Cornwallis, aided by the Hessians under General Heiser. From this line on the 29th August, 1776, after the gallant but disastrous engagements in which our forces had failed to maintain their ground, though led by Generals Sterling, Sullivan and Grant, Washington resolved to withdraw the army across the river; and he accomplished that famous retreat under cover of the protecting fog which concealed his movements from the British, the sound of whose spades and pickaxes was distinctly heard by our retiring soldiers. 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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