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41266	Fiske, John	The American Revolution			.txt	text/plain	184475	8252	67	congress, in order to concert measures of resistance to the Stamp Act. The first cordial response came from South Carolina, at the instance of [Sidenote: Lord North's mistaken hopes of securing New York] [Sidenote: Appointment of Washington to command the Continental army] adopted the army of New England men besieging Boston as the the war than by putting the New England army in charge of a general who on the 22d of August, General Howe landed 20,000 men at Gravesend Bay. From this point the American position was approachable by four roads, the morning the whole American army had landed on the New York side, and [Sidenote: General retreat of the British toward New York] commander-in-chief of the American army, and survived the second war The British army of 18,000 men was concentrated at New attack should be made upon New York by the French and American armies.	./cache/41266.txt	./txt/41266.txt