I., No. 24., Portsmouth, Tuesday, November 5, 1776, and by General Force, in the American Archives, V., ii., 1174, contained a statement of the skirmish, giving the command to General Lee and making other serious errore ; some Information relatinff to the enemy, communicated to the New- York Convention, evidently by General George Clinton, on the twenty-first of October, 1776, gave a brief description ; an allusion which was made to it, with the report of a deserter as to the enemy's Iosb, may be seen in an Extract of a letter from Fort Lee, dated "October 22," and published in The Philadelphia Evening Post, Vol. II., No. 276, Philadelphia, Saturday, October 26, 1776 ; with the letter, evidently written by General Glover, dated ''Mile Square, October 22, "177G," and published in The Freeman's Journal and New-Hampshire Gazette, Vol.
I., No. 27, Portsmouth, Tuesday, November 26, 1776, and by General Force, in the American Archives, V., ii., 1188, 1189, the reader is already acquainted ; an Extract of a letter from Mount Washington, dated October 23, 1776, written by an eye-witness of the engagement, and published iu The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1769, Philadelphia, "Wednesday, October 30, 1776, confirmed the statement that the loss was largely sustained by the German troops ; and informed that deserters stated the entire loss, British and German, to have amounted to "more " than eight hundred men, killed and wounded ; " a brief reference was made to the skirmish, in an Extract of a letter from East Chester, dated October 23, published in Tlie FreemarCs Journal or New-Hampshire Gazette, Vol.
I , No. 24, Portsmouth, Tuesday, November 5, 1776 ; an excellent and very full description, evidently written by one who participated in the fight, appeared in an Extract of a letter from Camp at Mile Square in East Chester, dated 23 October, 1776, which was printed in The Freeman's