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Title: Seventeen hundred and seventy-six, or, The war of independence : a history of the Anglo-Americans, from the period of the union of the colonies against the French, to the inauguration of Washington, the first president of the United States of America ...
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Edward Walker, 114 Fulton Street
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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een Marion, and wras greatly astonished at finding such anoted man so diminutive in size, especially when compared to the British generalsthen in the field, whose average weight, it is asserted, was more than 200 pounds.Having finished their business, the young officer prepared to depart, but was invitedby Marion to stop and dine. The invitation was accepted, and the entertainmentwas served up on pieces of bark. It consisted entirely of roasted potatoes, ofwhich the General ate heartily, and requested his guest to do the same, adding, hunger is the best sauce. But, surely, General, said the astonished officer, this cannot be your ordinary fare ? Indeed, sir, it is, he replied, and weare fortunate, on this occasion, entertaining company, to have more than our usualallowance. It is said that the young officer, on returning to his post, threw up hi3commission, declaring that men who could contentedly endure such privations, werenot to be subdued.—See Simmss Life of Marion, pp. 168-180.
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British Officer invited to Line trtth Ulrica. P. 338. CHAP. XI.) EVENTS OF 1781. 339 Battle of Eutaw Springs. Execution of Colonel Hayne. and divided his forces, fixing a detachment upon the Congaree ; buthe was soon undeceived by the sudden attack of Lee upon a fora-ging party, within a mile of the British camp. About forty ofRawdons cavalry were captured. Rawdon retreated to Orange-burgh and summoned Cruger to join him with the garrison of Ninety-six, which junction was effected, although much delayed by theattempts of Greene to prevent it. At Orangeburgh Rawdon receivedreinforcements from Charleston under Colonel Stewart, and Greene,unable to withstand the combined armies, retired to the . , . a July lo, high hills of the Santee,a where his troops would avoid theprevailing sickness of the season in the low countries. He en-deavored, by sending out detachments under Marion, Sumter, andLee, to draw Rawdon from his position. They effectually inter-rupted the communication between Char

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