Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Camp-Fires of the Revolution: Or the War of Independence
Far different was the scene on the plains. There, throughout the night, the whole park of artillery superintended by Washington in person, played upon the city of Boston, illuminating the sky with arches of fire, and dimming the pale light of the moon. Strange and bewildering was the Spectacle to many of the colonists; for even after an actual warfare of many months, they could not comprehend how brethren of the same race could embrue their hands in each other's blood. Yet the object of Washington was less to annoy the enemy, than to conceal the operations at Dorchester Heights. He succeeded; and on the following day, the British troops beheld, with admiration and astonishment, a series of breast works, which, looming through the morning mist, seemed, in their distorted proportions, to be the work of giants.
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