Victory At Yorktown: a Novel
“Colonel Allen van Dorn, of the staff of General Clinton, slowly rode up the “Broad Way” of New York City. It was a typical marketing day. During the night, drovers from New Jersey and Long Island had ferried across pigs, goats, sheep, and a score of cattle, and were driving them to the holding pens where they would be slaughtered. This evening, they would be on the plates of the seven thousand men of His Majesty’s army who occupied this city and the ten thousand sailors idling at anchor aboard ...the score of ships of the line and dozens of lesser craft, from light sloops to frigates, lying in the lower harbor off Staten Island.
Carts, loaded with the early harvest of late summer and drawn by slow oxen, made their way up the road, piled with Indian corn, cabbages, and other fresh vegetables. Also sacks of wheat for the bakeries of the army and the nearly thirty thousand civilians who lived under military occupation and military law.
It was nearly five years ago that His Majesty’s army had occupied this city after the pathetic resistance of Washington’s rabble.MoreLess
Carts, loaded with the early harvest of late summer and drawn by slow oxen, made their way up the road, piled with Indian corn, cabbages, and other fresh vegetables. Also sacks of wheat for the bakeries of the army and the nearly thirty thousand civilians who lived under military occupation and military law.
It was nearly five years ago that His Majesty’s army had occupied this city after the pathetic resistance of Washington’s rabble.MoreLess
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