Excerpt from The Writings of George Washington, Vol. 3: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published From the Original Manuscripts, With a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations To the Council of Massachusetts Bay, January toth, The strength of the lines - The new army. To the President of Congress, January nth Embarkation of British trooper - Importance of defending New York - Knowlton's exploit. 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.