'76

3 January 1777

Battle of Princeton

THE OMEN AT PRINCETON.

THE OMEN AT PRINCETON.

The frame in which the portrait of King George was
suspended was subsequently honored with the likeness
of Washington. The canvas on which the features of
royalty were depicted was shot away by a cannon-ball at
the battle of Princeton.

Round the College blazed the cannon,

A STRUGGLING COUNTRY.

hands at night,
For, through the thickening shadows, Hope casts

but taper light.
Old Continental paper ! the name of Brandywine,
Of Monmouth, and of Princeton too, are braided

into thine,
And Yorktown, where the grounded arms and

28 June 1778

Battle of Monmouth

THE VICTORY AT MONMOUTH.

the man.

THE VICTORY AT MONMOUTH.

" Hold them in check, — that British host,

THE VICTORY AT MONMOUTH.

5 7 6 Lyrics of the Revolution

Clinton at Monmouth halts today.

All waiting for our blow,
And what will Howe, his chieftain, say

THE VICTORY AT MONMOUTH.

The shattered British host.
Clinton the rebels' courage knew,

And Monmouth was our boast.

41

MIDDLEBROOK.

MIDDLEBROOK.

In the autumn succeeding the battle of Monmouth,
Washington took up his winter quarters in huts which
he had caused to be constructed at Middlebrook, in
New Jersey.

The lowly huts of Middlebrook,

17 January 1781

Battle of Cowpens

TARLETON AND THE LADIES.

TARLETON AND THE LADIES.

At a social gathering in Charleston, South Carolina,
at which Colonel Tarleton, of the English cavalry, was
present as one of the company, some of the ladies com-
plimenting Colonel Washington, he expressed a wish to
see him. " Had you looked behind you at the battle of
the Cowpens," said a lady, "you might easily have en-
joyed that pleasure." — Grimshaw's History.

In social festivity passing the hour
Sat Tarleton, the prince of dragoons,

TARLETON AND THE LADIES.

Now serving Apollo with tunes ;
The pet of Cornwallis and chivalry's boast,

The noblest to do and to dare,
At Cowpens he lately had closed with a host,

And come off rather worse for the wear.

TARLETON AND THE LADIES.

And told you to keep in your seat."

* In the battle of the Cowpens Colonel Washington
made a successful charge upon Colonel Tarleton, who
was cutting down the militia. Colonel W. pursued the
British cavalry for miles, but many of them escaped.
Eight hundred stand of arms, two field-pieces, eighty-five
baggage- wagons, and five hundred prisoners fell into the
hands of the victorious Americans. — Ramsay 's History
of South Carolina.

79

BOARDS.

Could protect his child sublimely ;
Since to Morgan's camp he had turned his face

When the Cowpens' fray was finished,
That guiding hand he could clearly trace,

Nor yet was his faith diminished.