For other accounts of this daring feat, inatteutpting totlestroy these shifts, and of the 8ubse<iUcnt escape of the latter, see Gen'-nil Heath to Gfia-ral Washinijton, *' King's BRintiK, 17 August, I77ti ;" OfiifrtU Wtmhiuijton to the Premlnit of Onigress, "Nf.w-Yohk, August 17, 1776;" llif sumr to Goreruor TnimbnU, " New Yukk, August IK, 1776;" General Ileuth to General Washington, " KiNo's ItitinoE, 18 August, 1770 ;" E-rnminalion of Jonnthan Wontlnian and two others, ttev'rtets, enclosed by General fiercer to General Washington, " Newark, August 19, 1776 ; " Extract from a letto- dated " New York, August I'J, 1776," published in Force's Anteric€iH ^ic/n'ivd, Fifth Series, i., Ul6li ; (.ieneral Il.ath to General Washingt4m, " Kino's Briocje, August 20, 1776 ;" 'lite Pennsijleania Keening Vast, Vol. II., No. 247, Pnii.AiiEi.niiA, Tuesday, August 2<l, 1776; The Vennsylcania ./miiM.i/, No. 175!l, Pnii.AOEi.rHiA, Wednesday, .\ngust 21, 177(> ; TJv Conneetient Gazelle and Vnieersal Int/ UitjenccT, Vol.11., No. 667, New London, Friday, August 2'J, 1776 ; Memoirs of General Heath, Wi-bi) ; Gordon's History of the American lierolntion, ii., 305; Force's A7nerican Archiees,\., i., !l8:i ; Irvirig's Life nf George Washiiigtvn, ii., 306. 307 ; etc.

\\'hat purports to have been copied from a coiitemporury drawing of the brilliant scene, made by Sir .lames Wallace, who bad command of the Hose, on the occasion now under notice, may be seen in 7'//e Maniutl of the Corporation if the City of Sew Yorh for 1864, opposite page 672. It is underetooil to have been copied from the original drawing, in the British Museum ; and it has been re-prodnced, in perfect facsimile, but reduced in size, for the illustration of this article. i^Videpage 31)1, ante.)