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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.

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ts, and enemy they helped to secure the retreat of the other regimen maneuver when the time came for them to retreat they executed the successfully. The American left was but a trine stronger than the right, consisting of the 1st New York regiment and Colonel Webb's Connecticut regiment, both skeleton organizations whose united numbers were some four hundred. Against them moved a formidable array-- Donop's Hessian Grenadiers in three regiments, besides a regiment ces was staof ( German chasseurs. The second of Hamilton's field-pieof the battle tioned in this position, and according to most accounts steadily came troops y mercenar seasoned did good execution. Rut the comtheir like s, regiment n America two the on up the hill, and patriots at the other points, were forced to retreat, which they did in an entirely creditable manner. A feature of the fighting at the left of the line was the spirited defense of a portion of the position, against a force twice as strong as his own, by Captain William Hull (afterward General Hull, distinguished in the War of 1812), who commanded a company of the Connecticut regiment. It has already been mentioned that a slight intreiichment was thrown up (or rather begun) on Chatterton's Hill during the night of October 27 by Brooks's Massachusetts militiamen. But this elementary work did not prove of the least utility to the defenders of the hill.