Excerpt from The Spurious Letters Attributed to Washington Fort Lee was taken on November 2oth, 1776, the American army leaving so hastily as to lose the whole Of the cannon that were at the fort, except two twelve-pounders, and a great deal Of baggage, between two and three hundred tents, about a thousand barrels of flour, and other stores in the quartermaster's department. This loss was inevitable. - Was/zz'ngfon to the President qf Congress, 21 November, 1776. In such a hasty retreat it was very reasonable to suppose thatthat some Of the sick might have been left behind in the confusion, and so Billy was taken. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.