Excerpt from The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America, Throughout the War Which Established Their Independence; And First President of the United States Of the operations of General Washington in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, in the campaign of 1777. The battles of Bran. Dywine and Germantown. Washington is advised by the Rev. Jacob Duche, to give up the contest. The distresses of the American army. Its winter quarters at Valley Forge. Gen eral Washington is assailed by the clamours of discontented individuals and public bodies, and by the designs of a faction to' supersede him in his office as commander in chief, p. 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.