The Storming of Stony Point on the Hudson, Midnight, July 15, 1779: Its Importance in the Light (Classic Reprint)
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Stony Point is more or less vaguely recalled as one of the cleverest exploits of the Revolutionary War. There is no doubt as to what men thought of it at the time. To one it was the finest stroke that has been struck this war. A nother saw in it a second Trenton, a comparison that revived, next to Saratoga, the happiest turn in the struggle. A nother pardonably regarded it as quite equal to Caesar s Veni, Vidi, Vici. A mong the most brilliant assaults I am acquainted with in history, wrote General Charles Lee, who had missed the chance of having something of the same sort said of his own tactics at Monmouth the year before. The congratulatory messages and letters that passed between Congress, the camp. State authorities and public men, excited wide-spread rejoicing, which would have been still deeper could the effect of the defeat upon the enemy have been fully measured. No one appreciated the affair more thoroughly than Washington, who had worked out the plan in detail for Wayne to execute, and who on the following day rode down to the scene to express his thanks in person to his victorious troops.
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The Battle Of Harlem Heights, September 16, 1776: With A Review Of The Events Of The Campaign (1897)
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The Record of Connecticut Men in the Military and Naval Service During the War of the Revolution, 1775-1783
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Henry Phelps Johnston was an American educator and historian. He was professor of history at the College of the City of New York from 1883 to 1916.
Background
Henry Johnston was born on April 19, 1842, in Trebizond, Turkey in Asia, the son of Reverend Thomas Pinckney and Marianne Cassandra (Howe) Johnston, pioneer American missionaries to Turkey and Armenia. His father was descended from Robert Johnston, of Scottish origin, who settled in Iredell County, North Carolina.
Education
The outbreak of the Crimean War suggested the return of the missionaries to the United States, and Henry completed at the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, his preparation for Yale College, from which he was graduated in 1862. After the Civil War he studied at the Yale Law School.
Career
After graduation Henry Johnston enlisted in August 1862, in the newly formed 15th Connecticut Volunteers. He told his classmates that for the next three years he "resided anywhere from the Potomac to the Neuse, in many a mudhole and swamp, in breastworks and forts, on picket lines and battle lines, and sometimes, too, in pleasant places. " Late in the conflict he was transferred to the United States Signal Corps and ended his service in July 1865 on the staff of General W. B. Hazen.
This military experience served to lend color to his later teaching and writing of history, but it was not until 1879 that Johnston settled down to a career of that sort. In the meantime one year at the Yale Law School had been followed by admission to the New York bar and a bit of office experience; then a try at school teaching, apparently without relish, and then several years connection with New York papers, including the Sun, New York Times, New York Observer, and Christian Union. He indulged his hobby for historical study in leisure hours, and the outcome was a monograph of recognized excellence, The Campaign of 1776 around New York (1878).
On January 1, 1879, Johnston became a tutor in the College of the City of New York and four years later he succeeded Charles E. Anthon as professor of history. He was an inspiring teacher and an eloquent lecturer. His colleagues in the history department of the college became many as the institution expanded, and they testify to the keen interest he had in their success.
The publication by E. F. de Lancey of the manuscript left by Judge Thomas Jones, under the title History of New York during the Revolutionary War (1879), brought from Johnston's pen his Observations on Judge Jones' Loyalist History of the American Revolution (1880). His interest in Connecticut and his Alma Mater was shown by his Yale and Her Honor Roll in the American Revolution (1888), The Record of Connecticut Men in the Military and Naval Service during the War of the Revolution (1889), and Nathan Hale, 1776: Biography and Memorials (1901). Two monographs, The Yorktown Campaign (1881) and The Battle of Harlem Heights (1897), are witness to his continued interest in military history, while the Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay (1890 - 1893) shows his ability in quite a different field.
Johnston was the founder of the Museum of the College of the City of New York, now a large and valuable collection of historical manuscripts, maps, relics, and other interesting material. After his retirement in 1916 from active teaching he was continued as curator of the Museum.
Johnston was a member of the New York and the Connecticut Historical Societies.
Personality
His colleagues testified to the open mind Johnston always showed to the newer tendencies even though he himself adhered to the older school of historians, and to his rich vein of quaint humor beneath a seeming austerity. His passion for historical research was unceasing.
Connections
Johnston married, October 26, 1871, Elizabeth Kirtland Holmes of Lebanon, Connecticut. They had four sons.