"The conduct of our soldiers," to use the words of the marquis, "was above all praise." He does not specify the gallantry of the French officers who are said to have greatly exposed themselves in cheering forward the militia. In this, which was Armand's maiden essay in war, his horse was shot under him, and a slight wound which he received enabled him to carry off from the field one manifest token of a passage at arms.--Fourteen Hessian prisoners were taken in this affair, and the enemy's loss in killed and wounded was about forty-five or fifty, while that of the Americans was only seven. During the spring and summer of 1778, he was assiduously engaged in drilling his legion and completing it to its numer-ical complement. In these preparations he was greatly as-sisted by Monsieur de Vienne, an officer of much experience, who had resigned his commission of captain in the French cavalry to join the armies of the United States. Armand's officers for the most part were his own countrymen. Of his privates the greater portion at this time were French or French Canadians, and the rest consisted of Brunswickers who had belonged to the convention troops of Saratoga, together with other continental Europeans picked up at different places by his recruiting agents. In the latter part of the summer of '78, the legionary force thus formed consisted of about fifty horse and one hundred infantry. Constant practice (under the eyes of zealous and experienced officers) in field exercise and the use of arms, had rendered it very efficient, and it was now to stand opposed to the best partisan troops of the enemy. When the American