Indeed, in the words of one of the best-informed writers of the history of those operations of the King's Navy, himself an Officer of the Army and a personal witness of what he described, " a vigor "and exertion, unequalled in any former expedition, prevailed through all classes in the Navy, " extinguishing jealousies, and banishing all those " ideas of pre-eminence and rank that sometimes subsist between the Fleet and the Army; and which
♦ Those who are thus designated (♦) were, probably, of Westchester-
•county families. .... j
+ James Cannady wae one of the Bedford Company who had served throughout the Campaign of 1775, under Colonel James Holmes, (vide page 101, ante.)
sidereditasonly a picket, or it would not have been mentioned in the despatches of both the Generals commanding nor have found aplace on either of the official Maps of the Campaign. . 4
6 General Howe to Lord George Germaine, "New-Yobk, November 30, "1776;" [Hall's] History of the Civil War in America, i., 205; Sauthier's Plan of the Operations of the King's Army ; A Plan of the Country from Frog's Point to Groton River; etc
6 "New- York, October 21, 1776. On Friday sixty-five sail of vessels, " under convoy of the Diamond and Ambuscade, with the second divis- " ion of the Hessians and one thousand Waldeckers, under the command " of the Generals Knyphauseu and Schmidtz, and a number of recruits for " the British troops, in all about eight thousand effective men, arrived " off Sandy-Hook. They sailed from Plymouth Sound, the 27th of July. " In the fleet are several victuallers and vessels laden with draugbt- " horses for the train and baggage ot the Army." (The New-YorTt Gazette and Weekly Mercury, No. 1304, New-Yobk, Monday, October 21, 1776.)