Note 889 — Chapter V · (continued 2)
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His letters (Sparks, iv., and 5 Force, iii.) give details of this retreat. Cf. also G. W. P. Custis's Recollections, p. 538. Howe has been much blamed for his want of enterprise in allowing Washington to escape (Galloway's Examination; Gordon's Amer. Rev., ii. 355; Wilkinson's Memoirs, i. 120).