Revolutionary Delaware: Independence in the First State (Military) by Burdick Kim Rogers

Author:Burdick, Kim Rogers [Burdick, Kim Rogers]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2016-11-21T05:00:00+00:00

British general James Grant took an alternative road to Chadds Ford and marched at sunset “by a bye road to Hokerson Meeting House—Quaker meeting 4 miles’ distance” and encamped along Old Wilmington Road for the night.

As the Americans got wind that the British were packing up and moving northward, they began to do the same. Captain Joseph Clark of the 3rd Virginia wrote:

Our situation near Newport was such that the enemy could not pass that way to Philadelphia without meeting our army, and thereby bringing on a general engagement, they, this night (Monday night) by a by-road, with good guides, got privately round our right wing of encampment and was advancing towards Philadelphia by the Lancaster Road. We, however, got word of it in time, and the whole army moved at 1 or 2 o’clock at night. 105

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