The disastrous result of the engagement which ensued immediately after daylight on the ensuing morning is well known. In a vain attempt to rally the panic stricken militia, the cavalry of the legion became disordered, and in that state were charged and put to rout by a far superior body of the enemy's dragoons. Although the greatest efforts were made to keep the legionary soldiers together, not one half ever joined their colors at Hillsborough, which became their rallying point; all the rest having been either killed, captured or dispersed. Gates was unsparingly censured by most of his officers. "I will not assert," and Armand in the afternoon of the day on which the battle was fought, "that

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we have been betrayed; but if it had been the purpose of the general to sacrifice his army, what could he have done more effectually to answer that purpose?" In September the remains of the corps were sent to forage and prepare cantonments for the winter, while the colonel himself went to Philadelphia, and in the ensuing month of February embarked for France, with a determination to pro-cure the means necessary for forming and equipping a new legion. He returned in the following autumn with all the arms, accoutrements and money required for the purposes he had in view. It was twelve days after the combined armies of Washington and Rochambeau had passed through Philadel-phia on their march to Yorktown, when Armand debarked at the former city. With all that remained of his legion, he then hurried after the allied forces, whom he joined before the beleaguered town, in time to participate in the honors and successes that awaited the confederates. When on the night of the 14th of October, the redoubt upon the left of the enemy's lines was attacked and carried by a detachment under lieuten-ant-colonel Hamilton, Armand, with several of his officers, was along, having previously obtained permission to join the storming party.