Jersey.     Having  arrived   at  Amboy,  a  bridge  was  thrown
hastily  over  to  Staten  Island,  and  all  the  heavy  baggage,  and  jje™5j?^'
many  of  the  troops  passed  it.     Washington,  now  deceived,  feint  of  re-
ordered his  army  to  the  pursuit.     Howe  recrossed  with  his     treating.
troops,  but  Washington  eluded  him,  and  regained  his  camp,   drawn  miT
though  not  without  a  skirmish,  in  which  the  British,  under  but  regains
Lord  Comwallis,  had  the  advantage  over  a  corps  of  American  ^^®  position.
riflemen.
CHAPTER  V.
Campaign  of  1777,  continued.
On  the  night  of  July  10th  occurred  the  capture  of  the  Bri-     ITTT.
tish  General  Prescott,  then  in  command  on  Rhode  Island.     General
Colonel  Barton,  with  forty  country  miUtia,  from  Warwick,     Prescott
under  his  command,  proceeded  ten  miles  in  whale  boats,  n*P*"?p^y
landed  between  Newport  and  Bristol,  marched  a  mile,  to        j^^^  ""
Prescott's  quarters,  took  the  general  from  his  bed,  and  con-
ducted him  with  dispatch  to  a  place  of  safety  on  the  main  land.
Meantime  great  preparations  were  making  for  a  descent  ^  ^ivlde^^^
upon  the  United  States  from  Canada.     The  plan  of  dividing      states,
the  states,  by  effecting  a  junction  of  the  British  army  through  *^'?^s^  *®
Lake  Champlain  and  the  Hudson,  was,  at  the  beginning  of  chmnpldn.
