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    Conduct of Sir William Howe Observations upon the Conduct of S-r W——-m H—e at the White Plains; As Related in The Gazette of December 30, 1776
    Conduct of Sir William Howe Observations upon the Conduct of S-r W——-m H—e at the White Plains; As Related in The Gazette of December 30, 1776
    Conduct of Sir William Howe Observations upon the Conduct of S-r W——-m H—e at the White Plains; As Related in The Gazette of December 30, 1776
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    Conduct of Sir William Howe Observations upon the Conduct of S-r W——-m H—e at the White Plains; As Related in The Gazette of December 30, 1776

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      Conduct of Sir William Howe Observations upon the Conduct of S-r W——-m H—e at the White Plains; As Related in The Gazette of December 30, 1776 - Israel Mauduit

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      Title: Conduct of Sir William Howe

      Observations upon the Conduct of S-r W-----m H--e at the White Plains; As Related in The Gazette of December 30, 1776

      Author: Israel Mauduit

      Release Date: August 16, 2010 [eBook #33449]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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      Note: This e-book was prepared from a Reprint Edition 1971 by Arno Press Inc.

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      CONDUCT OF SIR WILLIAM HOWE

      OBSERVATIONS

      UPON THE

      CONDUCT

      OF

      S-r W——M H—E

      AT THE

      WHITE PLAINS;

      AS RELATED IN THE GAZETTE

      OF DECEMBER 30, 1776.

      (By Israel Mauduit)

      LONDON:

      Printed for J. BEW, Pater-noster Row.

      M,DCC,LXXIX.

      Tarrytown, N.Y.

      REPRINTED

      WILLIAM ABBATT

      1927

      EDITOR'S PREFACE

      F the four British commanders here during the Revolution, Howe was certainly the chief, so far as dullness amounting to apathy and slowness almost equal to immobility, went. His first experience of American determination was at Bunker's Hill; and he ever afterwards showed a wholesome respect for his opponents. On the particular event we are considering, his expedition northward from New York to White Plains in 1776, his ineptitude was so conspicuous that Israel Mauduit wrote this stinging pamphlet (now very rare) about it, in which Howe's various forms of inefficiency are so tersely and forcibly shown up. It was indeed fortunate for the patriots that a really active, energetic officer was not in command; for such a one as Simcoe or Maitland

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