Excerpt from The American Revolution, Vol. 3
Such, and so sanguine, were General Greene's antici pations; but, after all, Greene did not command the Continental army. -the occasion was one on which Washington ought to have enforced-his own views against his military subordinate, and his political superiors; and concerning the nature of those views there exists no doubt at all. On the eighth of Novem her the commander-in-chief wrote to Greene that, inas much as British vessels could not be prevented from passing up the stream, and British troops possessed all the surrounding country, no benefit could be expected from the retention of the fortress on Manhattan Island. I am therefore inclined to think, (he continued,)
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