The Spy

Chapter 34

'Midst furs, and silks, and jewels' sheen,

He stood, in simple Lincoln green,

The center of the glittering ring;

And Snowdon's knight is Scotland's king!

--_Lady of the Lake_.

The commencement of the following year was passed, on the part of the

Americans, in making great preparations, in conjunction with their

allies, to bring the war to a close. In the South, Greene and Rawdon

made a bloody campaign, that was highly honorable to the troops of the

latter, but which, by terminating entirely to the advantage of the

former, proved him to be the better general of the two.

New York was the point that was threatened by the allied armies; and

Washington, by exciting a constant apprehension for the safety of that

city, prevented such re*********** from being sent to Cornwallis as

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