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which he had received the command of the 
28th regiment of foot. In the campaign of 
3777, notwithstanding the most strenuous 
efforts, General Washington took the field 
with a raw army of no more than 8000 ef- 
fective men, with which he assumed a strong 
position at Middlebrook ; but the subsequent 
motions of the British army having induced 
him to remove to Chaddsford, the battle of 
Brandywine Creek ensued, in which the 
English achieved a victory, which was vainly 
regarded at that time as productive of the to- 
tal subjugation of the American continent. 
But instead of this, the main body of the Ame- 
ricans soon after took post infront, while de- 
tached parties hung upon their flanks. It 
was a circumstance of this kind that first of- 
fered an opportunity to General Grey to dts- 
tinguish himself in his new command, No- 
tice having been received that the American 
General Wayne, an able and enterprising par- 
tizan, had concealed himself in the neighbour- 
ing woods, General Grey was detached by the 
commander in chief to dislodge him. An ex- 
pedition of this kind was. accompanied with 
considerable difficulty, as the contest was to 
be with experienced woodsmen, well acquaint- 
ed with the country, provided with rifles, and 
who would adopt the most determined mea- 
sures, either for attack or defence, on the re- 
port of the first musket. To prevent any 
alarm of this kind, General Grey gave or- 
ders that all the flints should be removed, and 
that every thing should be effected by mus- 
cular strength alone. To render the success 
less precarious, the assault was to be given 
during the night; and although it was one 
o'clock in the morning before the British 
reached the neighbourhood of the Paoli Ta- 
vern, where the Americans were encamped, 
yet the surprise was complete. On this oc- 
casion the piquets were forced without noise, 
so that the main body had scarcely time to 
turn gut, whilst those who were able to re- 
pair to the alarm post, paraded in the light of 
their own fires, so that the bayonet put a 
large number of them to death on the spot. 
Ramsay, the American Historian of the Re- 
volution, confesses that the enterprise was 
conducted with so much address, that the loss 
of the assailants did not exceed eight. The 
possession of Philadelphia was, about this 
time, nearly counterbalanced by an attack on 
the British poset at German town, at which 
the Americans at first proved successful, and 
weuid undoubtedly have exhibited a decided 
Ssperiority, but for the gallant conduct of 
Lieatenant colonel Musgrove, who retreated 
with six companies into a strong stone house, 
and kept one half of the army at bay. In- 
telligence of this event being brought to Ge-- 
neral Grey, he placed himself at the head of 
three battalions, and the Americans, instead 
of being the assailants, now finding themselves 
attacked in their turn, made a disorderly re- 
treat, in the course of which they lost upwards 
of one thousand mean, eats prisoners. 
Account of the laie £arl Grey. es) 
The capture of General Burgoyne’s army, the 
subsequent alliance between France and the 
United States, to which may be added the ar- 
rival of commissioners to negociate on the 
part of England, together with the evacuae 
tion of Bhiledelptia: rendered the campaign 
of 1778 otherwise unproductive of great 
events. Towards the autumn, General G, 
was still acting with a separate detachment, 
but employed on aservice which tended more 
te distress individuals, than to harass the Con- 
gress. He was, however, obliged to obey 
his instructions, and the destruction of the 
shipping, the burning of the magazines, 
wharfs, stores, warehouses, and vessels on the 
stocks at Bedford, as wellas at Martha’s Vine- 
yard, attested the success and aestruction 
achieved during this expedition. On his re- 
turn he surprised a regiment of light dragoons, 
posted ina barn near Tappan, nearly all of 
whom were killed by the bayonet, except such 
as had their lives spared by the humanity of 
one particular officer, who gave quarter to 
the whole of the 4th treop, The scene in 
which General G, happened to be principally 
employed during the war, was narrow and 
confined, and, it may be also said, unworthy 
of his ears as ne was obliged to act the 
part of a partizan, rather than that of a gene- 
ral, during the whole time that he remained 
in America, It must be aliowed, however, 
that he was ‘sparing of the lives a the sol- 
diers employed under him, though the same, 
cannot be said of him in respect of the ene 
“my, and he was successful in every expedi- 
tion committed to his charge. The Ameri- 
can war being concluded, a long interval of 
peace intervened, during which General G, 
was occupied in attending to the education of 
his children, and occasionally enjoying the 
amusements of a country life, at his seat of 
Fallowden, near Alnwick. Previously to 
the conclusion of the war he had been pro- 
moted to the rank of lieutenant-general, and 
in 1783 he was honoured with the Order of 
the Bath. In 1787 he resigned the command 
of the 28th foot, and was appointed colonel of 
the 8th light dragoons, which in two years 
he exchanged for the 7th dragoon guards. 
On the breaking Out of the war between 
Great Britain ana France, in 1793, Sir Charles 
G. was employed as commander in chief of 
the forces destined to attack che French West 
India islands, and was promoted to the decal 
rank of General; burt previously to this he 
led a smali body ef forces into maritime Flane 
ders, by means of whicn he secured the pos- 
session of Nieuport.—Sir John Jervis, now 
Ear! St. Vincent, beng appointed to the com- 
mand of tie fleet which was to act in concert 
with the military in the West Indies, Sit 
Charles embarked with the troops, end sailed 
for Carlisie Bay, in Barbadoes, from which 
place cies proceeded against Martinico, in 
February 1794. A jew days after sailing 
from ee three separate landings were 
effected, the consequences of which were, Pi- 
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