The several Brigades of the Army were formed into Divisions,- those commanded, respectively, by Brigadier-generals Heard, Beall, and Weedon were to form the Division to be commanded by Major-general Putnam ; those commanded, respectively, by Brigadier-generals Lord Stirling, Wadsworth, and Fellows were to form the Division to be commanded by Major-general Spencer; those commanded, respectively, by Brigadier-generals Nixon, McDougal,and James Clinton, the last commanded by Colonel Glover, were to form the Division to be commanded by Major-general Lee ; those commanded, respectively, by Brigadier-generals Parsons, Scott, and George Clinton were to form the Division to be com-

1 The reader has been, already, informed of what General Howe stated on the backwardness of the Colonists, even of those who had claimed to have been loyal, in talcing up arms against their own country, (vide jwjfs 3S8, 401 , ante.) We need not repeat the statements.

2 It is a noticeable fact, and one which has seriously perple.^ed those who have attempted to study the history of that period and, very often, has led them astray, that, until the time now under notice, the Eegiments of the Army were not, generally, arranged into Brigades and Divisions ; and that neither Brigadier-generals nor Major-generals had any specified Eegiments under their especial conunaiid-- they commanded those who were present and on duty, wherever they might happen to be ; and it is hardly to be wondered at, th t there was so little of order and discipline in the Army : it is rather remarkable there were as much of them as there api)ears to have been.