ful people, and with all the daring and enthusiasm which characterized the Paladins of romance, he took the earliest opportunity of reaching the shores of America. He arrived here in the spring of 1777. Concealing his title and assuming for a surname his baptismal appellation of Armand, he presented himself at once to Congress, asking for employment. On the 10th of May he received from that body the rank of colonel, being, at his own request, com- missioned to raise a partisan corps of Frenchmen consisting of horse and foot, and not exceeding in number two hundred. This was an undertaking which required the immediate out-lay of large sums of money, and to procure the necessary funds he went to Boston where merchants made him such advances as he desired, and through whom he drew largely upon his property in France. By the indefatigable industry of its commander the legion was soon raised in part, and when sufficiently trained to do service, its first employment seems to have been that of assist-ing to cover the frontiers of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Toward the end of the ensuing autumn, Armand hap-pened to be with the detachment under General Greene who (accompanied by the marquis de la Fayette) was in New Jersey watching the movements of Lord Cornwallis, then on the east bank of the Delaware. The marquis had for some time been solicitous for active service and actual command, and this appears to have been the first occasion upon which he was gratified with the object of his wishes. Cornwallis was about sending his troops across the river at Gloucester when General Greene placed La Fayette at the head of a detachment consisting of about three hundred militia, one hundred and fifty riflemen and ten light dragoons, with per-mission, should circumstances warrant it, to attack the out-posts of the British general.