On September 7, 1794, a battle broke out between the Continental Army and the British in the Harrisburg area.
On 10 September, the Battle of Harrisburg entered its fourth day, during which both sides suffered considerable casualties, but all in all the British had the upper hand in casualty rates.
The ratio of casualties between the Continental Army and the British was three to one.
The three-day offensive cost the Continental Army, which had 39,000 troops at the beginning of the war, with 12,000 casualties.
However, in Washington's view, these casualties were worth it, because after the fourth day of the battle, the situation of the Continental Army was superior on the overall level, and the 3,000 Continental Army, which had previously lurked on the right flank of the British army, threatened the center of the British army at any time like a sharp dagger in Washington's hand.
At two o'clock in the afternoon of September 10, the whole battlefield was full of fierce fighting between the two sides, and the Continental Army successfully stretched the frontal front of the British army through continuous attacks.
"Order, let the first detachment immediately pierce from behind towards the center point of the enemy line!"
Standing on a high ground, Washington said to the herald beside him.
With Washington's order, the 3,000 Continental Army, which had been lurking on the British right flank for three days, suddenly appeared and attacked the center of the British defensive line, which was weakened by the elongation of the battle line.
And this led directly to the collapse of the central line of defense of the British army.
"Damn Washington, order the Chinese army to disperse, and the British on the left flank immediately move to the right.
Cover the withdrawal of the rest of the army into Harrisburg!
” With the center line already lost, Wharton Hall had to order the British to begin a retreat.
After all, the Continental Army has broken through the center of the entire front.
At this time, the British army did not have the spare strength to recapture the battle line, in this case, if the center of the Continental Army blossomed and then cooperated with the two flanks to launch a flank attack on the British army that had been divided in half, then the British army immediately had the risk of being completely annihilated.
Alberta was no longer in the same spirits as when he first landed on the North American continent, and Alberta's military tent had turned smoky and stained with black and red stains.
Alberta's face was even more haggard, and his eyes were bloodshot, which was obviously the sequelae of not sleeping well for several days.
No wonder Alberta has become so embarrassed.
You must know that the central line of defense broken by the Continental Army is the defense area that Alberta's troops are responsible for.
At this moment, Alberta was being coerced by his men to retreat to the rear, and the 4,000 men under Alberta's command, plus the men and horses that Wharton Hall had successively reinforced, now had less than 2,000 men left, and the rest of the soldiers were either killed or wounded or lost.
Six o'clock in the afternoon.
The entire British line was lost, and the 4,000 British troops behind the left flank were almost completely annihilated, and less than 800 men and horses fled back to Harrisburg.
After retreating to Harrisburg, the casualty count was in Whartonhall's hands.
Whartonhall only felt his head flutter for a while, as if he was about to faint.
Only more than 8,000 of the 20,000 British troops fled back to Harrisburg, and even if the 2,000 troops left behind in Harrisburg were added, the current British army was only more than 10,000 troops, and most of these more than 10,000 were wounded.
"There must be a truce with the Continental Army, or else.
Before the Prussians could take the back of the Continental Army, our soldiers would die!
” "Exactly, Your Excellency Marshal, please make a decision early!"
Several British officers in the front-line units spoke to Whartonhall.
"Send someone to contact the Continental Army, we need a truce!"
After all that is said.
It was as if Whartonhall's energy had been drained away.
While the British were sending people to make contact with the Continental Army, the Prussians who captured Louisville did not stop for a moment.
After leaving 2,000 garrisons in Louisville, Scharnhorst commanded an army that brazenly invaded Indiana.
Louisville itself is a border city between Kentucky and Indiana.
However, after entering Indiana, the Prussian army also slowed down.
Ten days later, the Prussian army arrived at Seymour.
Seymour was originally garrisoned by 200 Continental Army militiamen, but when the Prussian Army was discovered, the Continental Army retreated.
For the Continental Army, it was the wisest choice to avoid confrontation with the main Prussian force before the main force returned to the division, after all, these towns with only a few hundred armed forces, even if they fought with the Continental Army, they might not be able to cause much trouble to the Continental Army.
Rather than that, it would be better to abandon these irrelevant areas for the time being and concentrate all the forces for use.
At this moment, in Indianapolis, the capital of Indiana, the Continental Congress has gathered four thousand Continental Army soldiers to hold on.
In fact, there are already voices at the top of the Continental Congress that have abandoned Indiana, and there are even many people who agree with this view.
Although Indiana was the first territory of the Continental Congress after its resurgence, it was not a prosperous territory and its original location from the coast, so Indianapolis did not have the potential to become the center of the Continental Congress in the long run.
But for Jefferson, Indianapolis could not be lost to the Prussians like other towns, if nothing else, Indianapolis is now the capital of the Continental Congress, and after several months of operation, Indianapolis has become the most important stronghold of the Continental Congress.
At this time, if Indianapolis were to be lost to the Prussians, the prestige of the Continental Congress, which had been regained with great difficulty, would be ruined, and more importantly, if Indiana was lost, the Continental Congress, which was left with all of Ohio and most of Pennsylvania, would be sandwiched between the Prussians and the British.
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Geographically speaking, once this situation is formed, the continental parliament will hardly have any strategic depth, if the two families send troops to attack in the future.
Then the fall of the Continental Congress is quite predictable.
It is precisely because of this consideration that Jefferson forcibly suppressed dissenting voices within the continental parliament.
Hard-line demands are clinging to Indianapolis.
On September 12, 1794, after two days of urgent deliberations, Washington, on behalf of the Continental Army, finally agreed to the request of the British army for a temporary truce with the British army.
However, Washington also had conditions, that is, the British army must provide the Continental Army with 20 artillery pieces, 3,000 rifles and corresponding ammunition, and also need the British army to provide a batch of medicines, cloth, grain and grass.
In addition to the material requirements, Washington was concerned that in the event of a retreat of the Great Army, the British Army would backtrack, and demanded that the British Army must send a figure of considerable weight as a hostage in the hands of the Continental Army.
When the Continental Army retreats to safety and does not notice the British pursuit, the hostages will be released.
After much deliberation, Wharton agreed to the Continental Army's request.
In Whartonhall's view, although the British army paid a lot of money, as long as the Continental Army could return to the army, then the British army still earned.
After all, the Continental Army had to fight Prussia desperately, and in Whartonhall's view, even though the Continental Army had a geographical advantage.
However, it was not necessarily able to defeat the Prussian army, and the difference in strength between the two sides was not very large to some extent.
In this way, the Continental Army concentrated its main forces to fight against the Prussian army, and no matter who among them won, it would definitely be a crushing victory, and the British army would be able to win without victory at that time!
On 17 September, the Prussian army descended on the city of Indianapolis.
After six days of fighting, the Prussian army finally took the city.
At this time, Washington had just arrived in Placeville, Ohio, with the Continental Army.
Jefferson and a significant number of members of the Continental Congress died in Indianapolis, while some of the members of the Continental Congress who escaped the Prussian encirclement fled to Columbus.
On September 26, Wharton tore up a secret agreement with the Continental Army.
Gather the British army again and march westward.
On September 30, Washington arrived in Columborne.
Immediately after Washington's arrival in Columbus, the flag of the Continental Congress was re-erected in Columbus.
At the same time, Washington himself became the leader of the continental parliament with the support of a cadre of congressmen.
After Washington reunited the forces of the Continental Congress, he immediately assembled a main force to counterattack Indiana.
On October 2, British forces captured Pittsburgh.
On 5 October, the 4th Division of the Prussian Colony, which had already been deployed in Greenville on the border of South Carolina, officially invaded the British colony of North Carolina under the banner of sending troops to aid the British army at its request.
After the 4th Division of the Colony invaded the British colony, it seemed to be in a no-man's land for a while, and the British towns and cities along the way put up flags one after another.
The situation on the North American continent changed, and London had to send troops to reinforce the North American continent again.
At the same time, the British government in London also expressed strong protest against the Prussian army's brazen invasion of the British colonies without the consent of the British side.
However, Brandenburg's reply was that the Prussian army had entered the country at the invitation of the British government, and for this reason Brandenburg also showed the agreement signed by Bruneke and the British commander Whartonhall.
As the agreement was taken out, London was speechless.
On October 13, 1794, the Battle of Dayton was officially fought between the Prussian army led by Scharnhorst and the Continental Army led by Washington.
The battle could be seen as a life-and-death battle for the Continental Army, so Washington pulled out all the armed forces in all the cities under the Continental Congress, and the Continental Army cobbled together a total of 43,000 troops.
On the Prussian side, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd divisions of the colonies totaled 30,000 men.
For North America, it was also the strongest collision since the start of the North American war.
At the same time, Whartonhall, who had just recovered Pittsburgh, did not care about the fisherman who wanted to be a sandpiper and a clam to profit from the competition, and after learning the news of the invasion of the Prussian Fourth Colonial Division, Whartonhall set off a storm in his heart and immediately ordered the main force of the British army to retreat from Pittsburgh to Greensboro.
In addition, Wharton Hall once again sent an urgent message to London asking for help.
On 19 October, the Battle of Dayton came to an end, and the Continental Army was defeated, leaving less than 6,000 of the 43,000 Continental Army alive after the war, and the rest were either killed or taken prisoner by the Prussian army.
After the war, Washington disappeared under the protection of his own personal guards.
After the defeat of the Continental Army, the Prussian army took advantage of the victory to pursue and capture Columbus.
So far.
With the exception of the remnants of the Continental Congress in some remote areas of Indiana and Ohio, the Continental Army and the Continental Congress administration no longer existed.
After the capture of Columbus.
Brüneke's battle plan at the beginning of the war was halfway completed, and driving Whartonhall's British army down the Atlantic was Brüneke's final plan.
Bruneke's plan was also agreed to by Brandenburg, and for Bruneke's plan, Wilhelm not only did not think Bruneke was bold, but even applauded it.
William was very aware of the strength of the British Army, after all, Britain was the focus of the Prussian Intelligence Ministry's infiltration.
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At present, the British forces are mainly invested in North America, and the British army has been transferred to North America after 20,000 men in advance.
London received a request for reinforcements from Whartonhall, and another 20,000 troops were sent to North America from all over the country.
As a result, in fact the rest of the British rule was very weakly defended, and the three British provinces in northern France, for example, were now garrisoned by less than 13,000 British troops.
This force is already a very dangerous signal, you must know that France has been licking its wounds and wants to take revenge on the British, and the 13,000 British army obviously lacks deterrence.
Even William learned.
Louis XVI of Paris had already secretly pacified Napoleon and eased the tension between the two sides, and Louis XVI promised Napoleon that if Napoleon could recover the northern regions, Louis XVI would divide the territory of Marseille and Toulouse in the south of France, including Corsica, to Napoleon.
Napoleon agreed.
In addition, in order to win over France to join the Prussian chariot, Brandenburg also secretly contacted Paris.
Brandenburg, for its part, supported Paris's just move to regain its territory.
At the same time, France had to side with Prussia against Britain, and once Prussia went to war with Britain, the French Navy had to join the Prussian Navy to fight against the British Royal Navy free of charge.
Originally, the Prussian government, headed by William, did not want to start a war with the British so early.
It was also said earlier that in the Prussian Military Ministry.
That battle plan with the British army was for what would happen five years later.
But now the situation is different, and the British have less than 60,000 troops in Europe.
And France's imminent move created an excellent condition for Prussia.
"Your Majesty, news has come from Paris, and Louis XVI agrees with our proposal, but he also has a request, that is, we must provide Paris with an interest-free loan of one million gold marks and a low-interest loan of five million gold marks!"
Standing in Wilhelm's office in the Brandenburg Palace, Locks said to Wilhelm.
Hearing Locks' words, William frowned.
The Prussian treasury did not have much money at the moment, and if it were to lend to Paris with this money, what would the emptied treasury use to support a possible war between Prussia and Great Britain.
As if to see William's embarrassment, Locks said: "Your Majesty, I think we can issue a war treasury bond!"
"Oh, Your Excellency Prime Minister, how many are you going to issue?"
War debt in Europe is not a new term, and Prussia has been doing so for decades.
"After deliberation, according to the current situation in our country, the government feels that a total of 10 million gold marks should be issued, and the interest rate is tentatively set at 5 percent!"
10 million gold marks, this number is still in a controllable range and so on.
And William still has the existence of the Royal Bank of Prussia in his hands after all, you must know that the Royal Bank of Prussia has become the bank with the most capital in Europe under the management of the Rothschild family in recent years.
The deposits in the bank amounted to more than 50 million gold marks, and not only that, but if you add the mortgaged title deeds, estates, jewelry, etc., then the assets owned by the Royal Prussian Bank exceeded 100 million gold marks.
It was precisely with the Royal Bank of Prussia in hand that William had confidence "Well, just do it according to the government's consultation, but in addition to the issuance of this national bond, the government should find those big businessmen to communicate, they have also made a lot of money in Prussia over the years, and now it is time for them to carry forward the spirit of contribution!"
Just after Prussia's state bonds were thrown into the market, the well-informed London government suddenly felt a chill in their hearts.
It was not only Prussia that spies in Britain, but Britain also planted many spies in Prussia.
The British government was also able to understand the current financial situation of Prussia, and under the current situation that there was still a large amount of money in the Prussian treasury, Prussia actually launched tens of millions of war debts, and it was obvious that Prussia was going to make a big move.
"Your Royal Highness Regent, what shall we do?
Now that the Prussians have shown their ambitions, we must not ignore them!
” In Buckingham Palace, Fawkes said to Augustus.
"It is Your Majesty, at the moment that Prussia and France are showing bad signs, and in this case, the kingdom must take precautions in advance, so as not to be caught off guard by the enemy!"
After Fox finished speaking, Secretary of War Abt immediately followed.
And just after the cabinet ministers opened their mouths to express their opinions, Augustus opened his mouth and said resolutely: "Our country also issues war bonds, and immediately speed up the reorganization of the new army, and at the same time send people to Switzerland, we need to recruit mercenaries, the glory of the Kingdom of Great Britain does not allow any country to provoke, if anyone wants to try, then they must pay the price of blood!"