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Continentals to charge with the bayonet, 
which decided the day, for thefé troops 
ruthed on with fuch impetuofity, that the, 
Britifh lines being foon broken and dif- 
ordered, the troops were clofely purfued, 
and about five hundred taken prifoners. 
The Englifh, however, made a feeond 
fiand, ina “pofition favoured by impene- 
trable enclo!ures and a piqueted garden ; 
and Lieutenant Colonel Wathington, after 
having made every effort to diflodge them, 
was wounded and taken prifoner. Four 
fix- pounders were brought forward to 
play upon them, but thefe alfo fell into 
their hands ; and it being found impraéti« 
cable to acquire any. further advantage, 
the Afnericans retired, leaving a piquet 
on the field of ation. 
‘The Congrefs honoared Greneral Greene 
with a Britifh ftandard, and a gold medal, 
* emblematical of this fuccefs sful affair, “<é for 
bis wife, decifive, and magnanimous con- 
audi in the adtion at the Eutaw Springs, it 
‘which, with a force inferior in number to 
that of the cxemy, be obtained a moft figual 
wictory.”” 
The battle of Eutaw, although rather 
- equivocal in point of actual fuccefs, yet 
effected fo material a change in the affairs 
of South Carolina, that the Britith troops 
afterwards confined themlelves chiefly to 
_ the town of aire ule being content 
with a few -foraging and depredatory ex- 
curfions, in which little more than. fkir- 
mifhing occurred. 
Tn: this fituation efatairs the Beate ican 
foidiers endured great and extraordinary 
hardfhips, in confequence of being de- 
prived of many neceflaries and comforts ; 
and a plot was at length hatched to deli- 
ver up their victoricus General to his ad- 
verfaries: happily for the caufe of Ame- 
rica, there were only twelve perions con- 
cerned mit, and the defign, equally de- 
fperate and atrocious, was providentially 
difcovered. 
The farrender of Lord Cornwallis’s 
army, at the fiege of York, in Virginia, 
{where Geneval Wafhington commanded 
in perfog) had, at length, convinced the 
Britith Minifiry of the impracticability of 
fubjugating the United States, and they 
di‘continaed offenfive operations. It had 
been reported, from the beginning of 
1782, that Charletiown was to be eva- 
euated; and it was .oficislly announced 
for the feventh of Auguf, but did not 
take place till the feventeenth of December. 
The period having at laf arrived, when: 
Great Britain thoug! 1¢ proper to ack nee: 
ledge the Independence of the United 
States ; the officers of the army, after 
eftablihing the Society of Cincinnatus, 
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Biographical Account i the late Major-gener al Greene, | 
‘Rhode-Ifland, political animofities had © 
: 
«y 4} a 
mati high. 
retired to plough their paternal ‘fields. 
Among the reft, General Greene was now 
at liberty to return to his native countrys | 
1 
where he difplayed the fame equanimity 
and good cqndu& as a citizen which he 
had evinced during his military career, in 
[Dec. 1, 
the courfe of which the two Carolinas - 
were refcued from invafion, and the grand 
ftruggle, ina great meafure, decided. 
hile the General was abfent from 
rifen to a confiderable height among his 
countrymen; and, on his return, he ex- 
erted himéelé, faccefsfully, in ‘reftoring 
harmony and quiet. In O&tober, 1785, 
he embarked on board a veffel for Georgia, 
to vifit his eftate in that part of America, 
While employed there, on his domeftic 
affairs, he happened te walk out in the 
month of June, in the extreme heat of an’ 
exceffive hot day, and being taken fad- 
denly ill, died on the 19th of the, fame 
mouth, in the year 1796. 
On receiving the account of this me- 
lancholy even it, the inhabitants of Savan- 
nah exprefled the moft poignant grief and 
concern. The ftores and fhops were im- 
mediately fhut up, and the fhipping in 
the harbour difplayed their colours»half. 
The body was carried to the 
capital of the province, and interred: on 
the 20th of the fame month, ina public. 
manner, being attended by the Society of 
the Cincinnati, the militia, citizens, &c. 
General Greene left behind him a widow 
and five children, the eldeft of whom was 
about eleven years old at the time of his 
father’s death. 
On Tuefday, the rath of Auguft for. 
lowing, the United States, in Congrefs 
afiembled, came to the following relolu- 
tion — 
REsOLVED—That a Monument be 
ereSted to the Memory of Nathaniel 
_ Greene, Efquire, at the Seat of Federal 
Government, with the — bibiel } 
tion :— 
SACRED to the aaa of 
NaTHaNiEL GREENE, ESQUIRE, 
Who departed this Lite © 
On the Ninzreenru of JUNE, 
M,DCC,LXXXVI. 
Late Maree GENERAL 
In the Service of the Unirep STATES, 
. AND 
COMMANDER of their ARMY 
IN THE 
SOUTHERN DEPARTMENT. 
The Unired STAaTEs,..in CONGRE$S ° 
ASSEMBLED, 
In Honour of his 
PATRIOTISM, VALOUR, aud ABILITY, 
HAVE ERSCTED THIS MonuMeEnT. 
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