Download or read book The Magazine of American History, Vol. 5 written by John Austin Stevens and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Magazine of American History, Vol. 5: With Notes and Queries While hastening the movement to which the happy coincidence of the imprudence of Cornwallis and the expected arrival of the French squadron promised brilliant and signal success, Washington neglected no measure to conceal his changed tactics. While heavy working par ties were engaged in repairing roads over which the army was to move, and extensive ovens were built by the French at Chatham for the baking of bread for the troops, the roads leading toward Staten Island were also repaired in order to threaten a movement on New York by the Hank, and confirm the Opinion of Clinton that the French fleet would shortly be at the entrance of the harbor of New York: ' 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.