An Oration Pronounced Before the Young Men of Westchester County, on the Completion of a Monument, Erected by Them to the Captors of Major Andre, at Tarrytown, Oct; 7, 1853 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from An Oration Pronounced Before the Young Men of Westchester County, on the Completion of a Monument, Erected by Them to the Captors of Major Andre, at Tarrytown, Oct; 7, 1853

All these ends would be attained by possession of the Hudson Riven-guarded solely by the cannon that brist led upon Fort Putnam, and the brave hearts who, under arnold's orders, manned the fortress perched upon the West Point hills. To wrest that fortress from American hands by superior valor, or by superior power, the British troops had proved unequal. And andre was commission ed to buy with gold, what steel could not conquer: to drive a bargain with one ready for a price to become a traitor - to count out the thirty pieces of silver by which British Generals and British gentlemen were not ashamed to purchase the betrayal of a cause, whose shining virtue repelled their power and dimmed the glory of their arms.

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