Papers of George Washington
Papers of George Washington Volume 17 of the Revolutionary War Series opens with Washington moving his army north from White Plains, New York, into new positions that ran from West Point to Danbury,…
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Papers of George Washington
Volume 17 of the Revolutionary War Series opens with Washington moving his army north from White Plains, New York, into new positions that ran from West Point to Danbury, Connecticut. His new headquarters, located near Fredericksburg, New York, about seventy miles north of New York City, was one of the most obscure of the Revolutionary War. His purpose in doing so was threefold: to protect his army, to protect the strategically important Hudson highlands, and to shore up the equally vital French fleet anchored at Boston.
It was a time of delicate transition for the new Franco-American alliance and for British strategists yet unwilling to concede defeat. Nevertheless, Washington remained as busy with important tasks during the fall of 1778 as during any other period of the war. Both circumstances required Washington to exercise the sort of mental agility he had demonstrated during the
Papers of George Washington
Papers of George Washington