Although the full strength of the Regiments commanded, respectively, by Colonels Shepard, Read, Baldwin, and Glover-- the latter, at that time, commanded by Captain Curtis -- was less than eight hundred effective men, 5 the brave fisherman who temporarily commanded the Brigade pushed forward toward the place where the enemy's Light Infantry and Grenadiers and Chasseurs had landed, and where the main body was about to land, although the rough and broken ground over which the Brigade was moved compelled him to leave, on his route, the three field-pieces which he had taken from his encampment. He had not marched more than half the dis-
1 General Erne's Speech before a Committee of the Bouse of Commons, April 29, 1776.
2 Admiral Lord Howe to Mr. Stephens, Secretary of the Admiralty, -Eagle, "OWNew-Yobk, November 23, 1776;" General Howe to Lord George Germame. " New-Yoek, November 30, 1776;" Lushington's Life of Lord Harris, 81 ; Gordon's History of the American Revolution, u., 338.
s Admiral Lord Howe to Mr. Stephens, Secretary of the Admiralty, " Eagle, " OFF New-Yoek, November 23, 1776 ; " General Howe to Lord George Germdine, "New-Yoek, November 30, 1776;" David How's Diary, October 18, 1776 : [Hall's] History of the OivU War in America, 1., 205 ; Memoirs of General Heath, 72 ; Gordon's History of the American Bevobiiion ii., 338 ; Stedman's History of the American War, i., 211 ; etc.
4 'Extract of a letter from MUe Square, [evidently written by General Glover,] daUd October 22, 1776, in The Freeman's Journal and New Hampshire Gantte, Vol. I, No. 27, Poetsmouth, Tuesday, November 26, 1776.