It seems canthat before the ascent of the assailing party, while the enemy's nonade was still in progress, one of the l wo field-pieces belonging to Alexander Hamilton's company of New York Artillery was, upon Colonel Haslet's application to General McDougall, assigned to his l Haslet 'si command. This gun became, however, partially disabled by a Hessian cannon-ball, and although several discharges were made from it, the artillerymen who served it are said to have been remiss in their duties and to have retired with it from the action unseasonably. At all events, the essential work of defense done at this of the riflemen, and their repoint in the American line was that markable steadiness in maintaining their ground was no way due to artillery support. Even after the 1,100 Maryland and New York troops, courageous and stubborn though they were, had completely abandoned their attempt to hold the center, this heroic Delaware band persevered in the tight, finally taking a post behind a fence at the to]) of the hill, where, with some fragmentary troops from McDougaH's 1st New York regiment, it twice repulsed the British charge, in which both foot and horse partook. In fact, the crowninghonors of the day were won by the Delaware men; they were the last of all the American forces on Chattel-ton's Hill to stand against the

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From the original cabinet-size Portrait by Peale, presented by John Quincy Adams to Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta, author of " History op the War of American Independence." Purchased from the Botta Family, with full credentials of authenticity, by Frederic de Peyster, LL.D., a former President of the New York Historical Society, and presented by his son, Brev.-Maj.-Gen. J. Watts de Peyster, New York, to the United States War Department Library, at Washington, D.C.