Excerpt from Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 of 5 Destination of the Fleet - Commission of the two Howey - Character of Lord Howe The Colonies divided into Departments - Lee assigned to the Southern Department -general Thomas to Canada - Character of Lee, by Washington - Letters of Lee from the South - A Dog in a Dancing School - Committee of Safety in Virginia Lee's Grenadiers - Putnam in Command at New York - State of Affairs there Arrival of Washington - New Arrangements - Perplexities with respect to Canada - England subsidizes Hessian Tr00ps. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.