Indeed, in the words of one of the best-informed writers of the history of those operations of the King's Navy, himself an Officer of the Army and a personal witness of what he described, " a vigor "and exertion, unequalled in any former expedi- " tion, prevailed through all classes in the Navy, "extinguishing jealousies, and banishing all those "ideas of pre-eminence and rank that sometimes sub- " sist between the Fleet and the Army ; and which

sidered it asonly a picket, or it would not have been mentioned in the despatches of both the Generals commanding nor have found a place on either of the official Maps of the Caini)aign.

6 General Howe to Lord George Germaine, " New-Yoek, November 30, "1776 ; " [Hall's] History of the Civil War in America, i., 205 ; Sauthier's Plan of the Operations of the King^s Anny ; A Plan of the Country from Fi-og^s Point to CroUm River ; etc

8 " New-Y'ork, October 21, 1776. On Friday sixty-five sail of vessels, " under convoy of the Diamond and Ambuscade, with the second divis- " ion of the Hessians and one thousand Waldeckers, under the command " of the Generals Knyphausen and Schinidtz, and a number of recruits for " the British troops, in all about eight thousand effective men, arrived " off Sandy-Hook. They sailed from Plymouth Sounil, the 27th of July. "In the fleet are several victuallers and vessels laden with draught- " horses for the train and baggage of the Army." (Tlie New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, No. 1304, New-York, Monday, October 21, 177G.)