The second shot passed about the centre of the battalion, when to the amount of a grand division settled down, which was an evidence that they would not stand much longer. One of the pieces was ordered to be drawn lower down the hill ; on which the battalion quitted their ground and marched off as fast as they could, without running to get behind the redoubt and hill at the bridge receiving one shot more as they were turning round the point. It was not suspected that the enemy had any cannon in the redoubt within the bridge, but they now began to cannonade the artillery men who had descended the hill,

» Journal of Madam Knight, 56.

b The new bridge was erected by Jacob Dykemau and Johannes Vermilyea, previous to the war, for the purpose of avoiding the toll of the old bridge.

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who had to draw up their pieces as fast as possible, which they effected without any loss but received three or four shot quite among them, before they could reach the top of the hill."» The attack on the 19th and '21st has been already detailed in the account of Tippetts hill.

July, 1778, Lord Cathcart held the command of ihe British force at Kings bridge.

"The late skirmish, (says Heath,) writing in 1781, near King's Bridge, was occasioned by the American army's moving down, in order to give the French officers a view of the British out-posts near the bridge. A number of Americans were killed and wounded by long shot from the yaugers of the enemy, who kept up a popping fire whenever they could reach our troops."''