Identifier: historyofamericap02wils (find matches)
Title: A history of the American people
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Subjects: United States -- History
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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klINS )• FORT TICONDKKUCA quite as carefully, like practical men who did not deceive themselves even in the midst of hope. Colonel Washington had come to the Congress in his provincial uniform; and, if no one cared to ask a man with whom it was so obviously difficult to be familiar why he wore such a habit there, all were free to draw their own conclusions. It was, no doubt, his instinctive expression of personal feeling in the midst of all that was happening; and his service in the Congress was from first to last that of a soldier. Its committees consulted him almost every day upon some question of 227
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WATCHING THE FIGHT AT BUNKER HILL THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE military preparation: the protection of the frontier against the Indians, the organization of a continental force, the management of a commissariat, the gathering of munitions, proper means of equipment, feasible plans of fortification. While they deliberated, his own colony passed openly into rebellion. The 1st of June saw Virginias last House of Burgesses assemble. By the 8th of the month Dunmore had fled his capital, rather than see a second time the anger of a Williamsburg mob, and was a fugitive upon one of his Majestys armed vessels lying in the river. The colony had thenceforth no government save such as it gave itself; and its delegates at Philadelphia knew that there was for them no turning back. On the 15th of June, on the motion of Mr. John Adams, the Congress chose Colonel Washington commander-in-chief of the American forces, and directed him to repair to-*Boston and assume command in thefield. Two days later the British an

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