A complete history of the Marquis de Lafayette, major-general in the American army in the war of the revolution. Embracing an account of his tour through the United States, to the time of his departure, September, 1825. By an officer in the late army.

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detachment, to get possession of Vandevin's Hill, with orders to oppose the column of the enemy which might advance on the Ridge Road, to the last extremity,
In the mean-time, General Gray, with a strong detachment, advanced along the south side of the Schuylkill, and
took post at a ford, two or three miles in front of the riglit
flank of Lafayette. The residue of the British army encamped on Chesnut Hill. Captain M'Lane reached Barren
ltill about daybreak, and communicated the impendilg
danger to Lafayette, who could hardly credit the report;
but an express from Captain Parr's detachment, which had
got possession of the heights of Schuylkill in season to
engage general Gray's column and check its advance, and
another, at the same moment, from an opposite quarter,
giving information of the movements of General Grant soon
brought sorrowful confirmation of his perilous situation.
The manner in which the last mentioned information was
conveyed, affords an instance of patriotic zeal, worthy of
leinog recorded. In passing White Marsh, the noise of the
British column awoke a Captain Stone of the militia, residilng there, who, on making the discovery, jumped from a
back window of his house, and ran naked across the country toward Barren Hill, until he was entirely exhausted:
his report was then taken up and carried to the marquis, in
the same manner, by Richard Burtleston, who resided near
Plymouth Meeting House.
The Marquis now found himself in a state of extreme
danger. Finding that he was turned, he justly concluded,
like an experienced warrior, that the column marched
against him would not be the first to attack, and that it
would wait until the other was in readiness. In fact, General Grant, after marching, under cover of the night, nearly
twenty miles in nine hours, was attending the movements
of the column on the Ridge Road. At his position the
roads forked; one branch led to the camp of Lafayette,
less than a mile distant; the other went to Matson's -Ford