... developed simultaneously with the building of the Western railroads, and in no part of the nation was the importance of railroads more generally recognized. The railroad gave vi-tality to the regions it served, but, by withholding service, it could doom a community to stagnation. Despite the success and completion of the transcontinental, further railroad suc-cess was not always easy. Other railroads had begun construction westward, but the panic of 1873 and the ensuing depression halted ... Buffalo Railroad on the western side of the Hudson River in 1885. The sys-tem grew until it had ...

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... Fort Edward. Burgoyne had no other option than to fight. Burgoyne sent a detachment to establish an outpost on an undefended height overlooking Gates' army. His plan was to use artillery to force the Continental Army back to the Hudson River. This engagement, known as the battle of Freeman's Farm, or the first battle of Saratoga, saw Burgoyne outnumbered. A favorite tactic for the British was the bayonet charge, especially against militia ... to distract a portion of Gates' troops. On the eve of the second battle of Saratoga, known as the battle of Bemis Heights, Gates thought Burgoyne,...

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... 1780 the main theater of the war shifted to the south. Although other generals, including Nathaniel Greene and Daniel Morgan, conducted the campaigns in Virginia and the Carolinas Washington was still responsible for the overall direction of the war. After the arrival of the French army in 1780 he concentrated on coordinating allied efforts in the 1781 launched, in cooperation with the Comte De Rochambeau and the Comte d"Estaing, the brilliantly planned ... Preferring to concentrate on restoring Mount Vernon, he added a greenhouse, a mill, an icehouse, and horses, investigated the develo...

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... but Walt often liked to distance himself from them and ride the ferries from East River to New York City. During these commutes, Whitman became mystified by these transitions, and the experiences are recounted in a poem he wrote nearly 30 years later entitled "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry". In this poem the act of crossing suggested a passage from life to death and back to ... didn't enjoy seeing his relatives so much as he did observing the rural countryside and, more influentially, the shore side of the island. It is here where Whitman would contemplate the mystery of the adjunction of two s...

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