CHAPTER XLII.

Lee at Peekskill—Stanch Adherence of Heath to Orders—Lee Crosses the Hudson—Washington at Trenton—Lee at the heels of the Enemy—His Speculations on Military Greatness—Forced March of Cornwallis—Washington Crosses the Delaware—Putnam in Command at Philadelphia—Baffling Letters of Lee—Hopes to Reconquer the Jerseys—Gates on the March—Lee Quartered at Baskingridge—Surprised and Captured—Speculations on his Conduct 422