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as friends; but they were foon llain by the horfeinen under Lee and Pickens, and there was a great difgomfiture; and the tories were fore amazed, inafmuch as they regarded not their words, and flew them when they cried out " God fave the king/' And when Tarle- ion heard thereof, he fled back again to the main army, and on the way he flew feveral of the tories, whom he took to be friends to the great Sanhedrim.

CHAP. LV.

A reinforcement from Virginia, stimulates Gene, ral Green to make a stand, against CornwalUs ~/j defeated, and retires to Spsedivell Iron ivorks,

-O-ND it came to pafs, that four hundred men, whofe hearts were warmed with the love of liberty, came from the province of Virginia, and from the adjoining province, even from North Carolina.