These troops are Prussians." Several of the officers of the French army who have seen troops of the different European nations have bestowed the highest encomium and applause on our army, and declare that they had seen none superior to the Americans.

The last of the French troops arrived on the 18th of September. The army of Rochambeau made its encampment at and about the on Verplanck's village of Crompond,1 the Americans remaining Point. During the continuance of the allies in these positions they undertook no hostile movement against the British, and Sir Guy Carleton was reciprocally inactive. Heath records, however, thai on the Kith of September "The enemy made a grand forage near Valentine's Hill. Sir Guy Carleton was out in person, as was the young prince [William Henry]. The covering party, it was said, consisted of five or six thousand men." And on our side Washington took the significant proceeding of an extensive reconnoiter in person. September 27, according to Heath, " General Washington, covered by the Dragoons and light infantry, reconnoitered the grounds on the east side of the river below the White Plains." Record of this enterprise appears also in Washington's "Accounts with the United States," as follows: "September, 1782.-- To the Expences of a Reconnoitre as low as Philipsburg & thence across from Dobbs's ferry to ye Sound with a large Party of Horse, £32 Ss [lawful currency]." In' that charming book of personal reminiscences, the Memoirs and Recollections of Count Segur, several pages are devoted to the impressions made upon the poetic temperament of the author during The Count Segur a sojourn at Rochambeau's cam]) at Crompond. and found on the 26th of September, camp however, weeks, two first the i During Rochambeau had his headquarters at Peekskill, Rochambeau qu£ ed at " I'iskill " [I'eekthe afterward, days few a " ,,-here also most of his army was apparently skill], whence, stationed after its arrival.