Dawson, after careful examination of all the known facts, concludes that the number of the enemy actually engaged by Glover and his men could not have been less than 4,000; while the two regiments of Read and Shepard, which sustained practically the entire attack of this army, could not have exceeded 400 rank and file. The American losses, according to official returns, were six men killed and Colonel Shepard and twelve men wounded. The enemy's forces comprised both British regiments and German mercenary chasseurs. The losses to the British regiments (as shown by the returns) were three men killed and two officers and twenty men wounded. As for the mercenaries, no official returns of their losses have been published. Regarding this point we shall permit ourselves to quote at length the observations of Dawson, upon whose facts we have frequently drawn, though usually (and we admit quite deliberately) without reproducing the singularly precise and diligent concatenations of statement and related considerations wherewith he surrounds them. The reports (he says) of the operations and the casualties of those [mercenary] troops were made to the several sovereign princes, electors, etc., of whom these troops were, respectively, suhjects ; and, except in some few instances, when individual enterprise has unearthed some of them, the text of those reports and much of the official correspondence remain in their original repositories, unopened and seemingly uncared for. The reports of deserters, and other unofficial reports, made the total losses, hoth British and German, from eight hundred to a thousand men ; and it is difficult to make one helieve that four hundred Americans, familiar from their childhood with the use of firearms, sheltered by ample defenses, from which they could fire deliberately and with their pieces rested on the tops of their defenses, could have possibly fired volley after volley into a large body of men, massed in a closely compacted column and cooped up in a narrow country roadway, without having inflicted as extended a damage on those who received their fire as deserter after deserter, to the number of more than half a dozen, on different days, without any connection withtheeach other, now severally separately declared had been inflicted on the enemy's advance on occasion under and consideration.