XV.--Washington's Chief Reliance 198

XVI.--Defending the Hudson Highlands 212

XVII.--Last Years in the Service 226

XVIII.--The Disabled Veteran 243




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"Old Put" escaping from the British at Horseneck _Frontispiece_

The Wolf Den at Pomfret, Connecticut 18

Fort near Havana where the Colonials landed 112

Israel Putnam 188
_From a painting by Trumbull._

Statue to General Putnam at Brooklyn, Connecticut 254