CHAPTER these was added Horatio Gates, as adjutant-general, with the rank of brigadier. VII. 1775. Proceeds to the army. Arrives in June 25. Instructions to General Schuyler. The situation of affairs required the commander's presence as soon as possible at Cambridge, where the army was stationed. Every necessary arrangement with Congress was in a short time completed, and he left Philadelphia on the 21st of June, accompanied by General Lee and General Schuyler, and escorted by a volunteer troop of light-horse from the city, which continued with him to New York. He had reviewed in Philadelphia, at the request of the officers, several militia companies of infantry, rangers, riflemen, and light-horse. Wherever he appeared, the people manifested great enthusiasm, and eagerness to show him all the respect to which his new rank entitled him. The Provincial Congress of New York was then sitting; and, when it was known that General Washington was on the road, a committee from that body was deputed to meet him at Newark, and attend him across Hudson's River. On his arrival, addresses of congratulation and civility passed between him and the New York Congress. The particulars of the battle of Bunker's Hill reached him there, and increased his anxiety to hasten forward to the army. General Schuyler was to remain in New York, as commander of the military operations in that quarter. This was a delicate position, as the British Governor Tryon was then in the city, a ship of war in the harbor keeping the inhabitants in awe, and throughout the province were many powerful and avowed friends of the royal cause. But great confidence was placed in the fidelity, discretion, and firmness of General Schuyler. After giving him instructions suitable to the exigencies of the case, General Washington again pursued his journey, escorted by volunteer military companies. In this manner Cambridge. he travelled to Springfield, where he was met by a committee from the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, who were instructed to provide escorts, and to attend him in person, through the remainder of the route. Joins the army at July 2. He arrived |