When the magazines were reached blew up with terrific explosions, which long reverberated among they mountains. the Continental Village, with its barracks, storehouses, and a number of loaded wagons, was burned on the 9th by a detachment under was not Major-General Trvon. Westchester County below Peekskill Putnam included in this Visitation, and before the end of October was back in Peekskill with a force of 6,000. The whole Hudson being open, the British ascended it and ravaged the country. To this period belongs the burning of Kingston. Soon, however, came the wonderful tidings of the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga (October 20). and the invaders from below, finding their errand a profitless one and unable to maintain their position in the Highlands, returned to New York. Putnam, at Peekskill, resumed his sway over the entire post. No further attempt was made against Peekskill or its important 's Point, and jurisdiction until the summer of 1779, when Verplanck Stony Point opposite, were seized-- to no other substantial end, how Wayne to immortality. ever,' than to give the name of Anthony The very large body with which Putnam resumed his station at Peekskill was obtained from the Northern Army, which, after Bur -oy ne's surrender, had been disintegrated. These troops and many more, no longer needed at the North, should have been sent to Washington, who, after the evacuation of Philadelphia, continued the unequal struggle with Howe; but the jealousy of Gates deprived Washington of them, as a year previously the ambition of Lee had prestate of the atmosphere ilfter landing on Verplanck's Point, Sir of the river, but the could be made of Henry re-embarked a portion of his force and was such that no estimate From all the circumstances, Putmoved the fleet up to Peekskill Neck. This was the number. was only a small it that one of his schemes to mask the proceedings of nam firmly believed the American storehouses main body at King's Ferry All writers detachment to burn of a large an-ee "hat Putnam was informed betimes of on that side, and the appearance British fire near Stony Point shortly afterward conShe transportation of a part ofthethewest opinion. this in him firmed side army from Verplanck's Point to