Forbes Forum

REMEMBRANCE

As British soldiers evacuated New York City months after Yorktown, a woman of that city wrote the following: "We had been accustomed for a long time to military display in all the finish and finery of garrison life; the troops just leaving us were as if equipped for show, and with their scarlet uniforms and burnished arms, made a brilliant display; the troops that marched in, on the contrary, were ill-clad and weather beaten, and made a forlorn appearance; but they were OUR troops, and as I looked at them and thought upon all they had done and suffered for us, my heart and my eyes were full, and I admired and gloried in them the more, because they were weather beaten and forlorn." P. 506 of "Washington: an Abridgement in One Volume" by Richard Harwell of the seven volume "George Washington" by Douglas Southall Freeman