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WASHINGTON AND HIS COMRADES IN ARMS, A CHRONICLE OF THE WAR OF
INDEPENDENCE

BY GEORGE M. WRONG




Volume 12 in the Chronicles of America Series. Abraham Lincoln Edition.




PREFATORY NOTE

The author is aware of a certain audacity in undertaking, himself
a Briton, to appear in a company of American writers on American
history and above all to write on the subject of Washington. If
excuse is needed it is to be found in the special interest of the
career of Washington to a citizen of the British Commonwealth of
Nations at the present time and in the urgency with which the
editor and publishers declared that such an interpretation would
not be unwelcome to Americans and pressed upon the author a task
for which he doubted his own qualifications. To the editor he
owes thanks for wise criticism. He is also indebted to Mr.
Worthington Chauncey Ford, of the Massachusetts Historical