03110cam a22003253u 4500 76805 UtSlPG 20260610134758.0 m cr n 260607r20251855utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 E300 Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 Life of George Washington, volume 2 of 5 Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2025-09-03 Richard Tonsing, Emmanuel Ackerman, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Life of George Washington, volume 2 of 5" by Washington Irving is a historical biography written in the mid-19th century. This volume centers on Washington’s early leadership of the Continental Army, charting the siege of Boston, the fraught Canadian venture, and the opening New York–New Jersey campaigns. It highlights battlefield decisions, supply and discipline challenges, and vivid portraits of both American and British commanders, revealing how Washington forged an army under pressure. The opening of the volume follows Washington’s arrival at Cambridge to take command, his survey of British leaders (Howe, Clinton, Burgoyne), and a stark contrast between well-ordered British lines and a raw, sprawling American force short on men, engineers, and supplies. Irving sketches the camp’s personalities and organization—Putnam’s energy, Greene’s promise, Gates’s role, Lee’s harsh discipline and irreverence, and Washington’s close reliance on Joseph Reed—while describing reforms in logistics and fortifications and the arrival of frontier riflemen under Daniel Morgan. Washington refuses to scatter his army along the coast, articulates a clear policy for defending the whole, and, amid efforts to provoke a British sortie at Boston, grapples with a near-ruinous powder shortage and asserts the dignity of the patriot cause in a firm exchange with General Gage over prisoner treatment. Parallel chapters trace turmoil on the northern frontier—Allen and Arnold’s rivalry after Ticonderoga, Congress’s legitimizing steps, Schuyler and Montgomery’s preparations, Indian diplomacy at Cambridge, and the conception of a bold overland thrust toward Quebec—culminating in Schuyler’s small force pushing to the Isle aux Noix and Washington’s unsuccessful attempt to draw the British out by seizing a forward hill near Charlestown Neck. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: New York: G. P. Putnam, 1855 Presidents -- United States -- Biography Washington, George, 1732-1799 https://archive.org/details/lifeofgeorgewash02irvi https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76805 117530 117530