The Storming of Stony Point on the Hudson, Midnight, July 15, 1779: Its Importance in the Light (Classic Reprint)

Stony Point is more or less vaguely recalled as one of the cleverest exploits of the Revolutionary War. There is no doubt as to what men thought of it at the time. To one it was the finest stroke that has been struck this war. A nother saw in it a second Trenton, a comparison that revived, next to Saratoga, the happiest turn in the struggle. A nother pardonably regarded it as quite equal to Caesar s Veni, Vidi, Vici. A mong the most brilliant assaults I am acquainted with in history, wrote General Charles Lee, who had missed the chance of having something of the same sort said of his own tactics at Monmouth the year before. The congratulatory messages and letters that passed between Congress, the camp. State authorities and public men, excited wide-spread rejoicing, which would have been still deeper could the effect of the defeat upon the enemy have been fully measured. No one appreciated the affair more thoroughly than Washington, who had worked out the plan in detail for Wayne to execute, and who on the following day rode down to the scene to express his thanks in person to his victorious troops.
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