3z8 Boy Scouts tion, they pledged to each other "their lives, their tottunes and their sacred honor." Following the expulsion of the British from Boston, the battle field of the Revolution changes to New York, moving to Harlem Heights and White plains; then to New Jersey; Trenton, and Princeton; then to Pennsylvania; Brandywine, Westchester, Germantown, Valley Forge, and on to Monmouth. But here let us pause? It has been a terrible winter at Valley Forge. While the British at Philadelphia, twenty miles away., have been Hving in luxury, our Wa-?hington and his 'men have suffered bitterly with hunger and cold; and out of a Hst of eleven thousami men, three thousand at Valley .Forge lay sick at one time. But at last the spring has come and Washing- ton has now been nearly three years in scrvice? IAstenl The order has gone forthi At to:3 o o'clock comes the signal, and the firing of a cannon sees all men under armsl At xx:3o o'clock the second signal is given and the march begira. It is May 7, x778, and Washington is assembling his mere Great news has come and it is fitting to return thanks to Divine Providence -- ao reads hla proclamation. Now comes the third signal, the firing of thirteen cannon! Another signall and the whole army breaks into a loud huzza -- "Long Hve the King of Francel"followedbyarunaing f?re of gu?. On this same day in the afternoon, Washington gives a banquet to his officers, aides, and guests, to which they march arm-in-arm, thirteen abreast. What does it ?ean? It means that Benjamin Franl?iln has been heard from, and that an alliance with France, England's bitterest enemy, has been made. Some day when you are in Washington, you may sec directly in front of the White House, Lafayette Park, and, knowing the story of the Revolution, you understand why it is there. You also understand why Washington 's army on that May morning shouted, "Long Hve the King Of France." But it is not our purpose here to tell the whole story: we can only touch the high points. Again the army moves to White Plains and on to Middlebrook and lqew Windsor; and Washing-
ton spends the winter (?78x) at Morristown, N.J. The end
is approaching. He joins Lafayette at Yorktown, Va., and on October xOth, Cornwailla? the Briti_eh general, antrenders to George Washington, commander-in-chief ,of the American Army. Thus the conflict begun in one English settlement is ended in the other. Massachusetts marks the beginning and Virginia the ending of the War of the Reyalution,
