Excerpt from The American Revolution, Vol. 3 Such, and so sanguine, were General Greene's antici pations; but, after all, Greene did not command the Continental army. -the occasion was one on which Washington ought to have enforced-his own views against his military subordinate, and his political superiors; and concerning the nature of those views there exists no doubt at all. On the eighth of Novem her the commander-in-chief wrote to Greene that, inas much as British vessels could not be prevented from passing up the stream, and British troops possessed all the surrounding country, no benefit could be expected from the retention of the fortress on Manhattan Island. I am therefore inclined to think, (he continued, ) 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.