Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1805 Excerpt: ... should manifest a wicked and desperate perseverance in opposing the re-establishment of royal authority.-' While taking these measures to break the spirit of independence, lord Cornwallis was indefatigable in urging his preparations for the expedition into North Carolina. The day after the battle of Camden, emissaries had been dispatched into that state,where it was supposed the royalists might now assemble without danger, for the purpose of in viting the friends of the British government to Chap. vn. take up arms, and to seize the most violent of 1780. their enemies, as well as the magazines and stores which might have been collected for the use of the Americans. These emissaries also carried with them assurances, that the British army would, without loss of time, march to their support. Mean-while, the utmost exertions were continued to embody the people of the country as a British militia; and major Ferguson, a partisan of distinguishedinerit, was employed in the district of Ninety-six, to train the most loyal inhabitants, and to attach them to his own corps, from which important services were expected.b To keep up the spirits of the royalists in the back parts of North Carolina, and to embody them for co-operation with his army, lord Cornwallis directed major Ferguson to enter the western part of that state near the mountains. He was ordered to hazard nothing, but immediately to inform his lordship if an enemy from whom any apprehension could be entertained, should approach him. The route marked out for the main army was from Camden, through the settlement of the Waxhaws, to Charlottetown in North Carolina. The legion of Tarlton was to keep open the communication between Ferguson and lord Cornwallis; and between the tory settlements b Stedman. VoL. IV....
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