410 HISTORY or 



enlisted in war, the Americans might have avoided the! 

 hair-breadth escapes which ensued,"* as well as the long 

 continued, arduous conflict of eight years, and an enor- 

 mous sum of expense, besides saving many valuable 

 lives, in delivering themselves from a foreign dominion, 

 and gaining, as they did, a rank among the nations of the 

 earth. Much treasure, and many lives might have been 

 saved. Great Britain expended more than one hundred 

 millions of dollars, with a hundred thousand lives, and 

 won nothing. America expended rising of ninety millions 

 of dollars, and lost many lives, and endured cruelty and 

 distress. 



Lancaster county furnished its full quota of militia and 

 continentals, during the Revolution. Her citizens acted 

 early and efficiently. " Prior to the four regiments of St. 

 Clair, Shee, Wayne and Magaw, that of De Haas, and 

 Hand's rifle company, were already raised and equipped, 

 respectively commanded by Miles and Atlee, in the 

 whole, nine regiments complete and very reputably 

 officered." 



Numerous are the incidents, and some full of adven- 

 ture, which happened in this county during the Revolu- 

 tion. Gen. Washington, and other distinguished Ameri- 

 can and British officers were in the borough of Lancaster 

 at the period referred to. Though neither battles, nor 

 skirmishes took place within the limits of the county, the 

 wounded and prisoners here were many. At the battle 

 and cannonading of Trenton, December 26, 1776, many of 



*The quota furnished by Pennsylvania from 1775 to 1783, 

 consisted of 7357 militia and 22,198 continentals. The aggre- 

 gate quota by all the states was 234,971 continentals and 56,- 

 163 niililia— total 279,134. In the year 1776, rcnnsylvania fur- 

 nished 5,519 continentals and 4,B76 militia— total 10,395. 



