The Partisan: A Romance of the Revolution (Classic Reprint)

ISBN-10: 1333379684
ISBN-13: 9781333379681
Series: The Partisan
Pages: 544
Language: English
Published: 2016-08-27
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Author: William Gilmore Simms

Description

Excerpt from The Partisan: A Romance of the Revolution Cornwallis, and immediately after the disastrous close of the campaign of 1780, which ended in the complete and most wretched defeat of the Southern army, under the Hero (so called) of Saratoga. In the pro gress of my narrative I have drawn freely from the various and copious histories before me - now from one and now from another, as they seemed, severally, to answer best my purposes, and to correspond with the general exactions of the truth. The work, in fact, is mostly historical. Here you will see how the little nucleus of the Partisan squad was first formed in the recesses of the swamp. Here you will see how the personal wrong has goaded the indifferent into patriotism - how the reckless tyranny, in the wantonness of authority, has driven the submissive into rebellion how the native strength and spirit were nerved, by the humblest agents and necessities, to take the field, and finally to prevail, in the struggle with the invaders. For it is not to be doubted or denied, though the fact has never been honestly asserted by our historians, that but for the par tisan warfare or the South, the regular armies would have taken the field in vain. All this history has yet to be written; and many of the judg ments of the country, rendered through ignorance, and with interested and imperfect evidence, will need to be revised and reversed. There are some brows which we nave wreathed with laurel, which we should more justly brand with shame, or contempt at least. 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.