Concerning the same subject, General Heath, who was on the oppositeextremity of the line of the main body, wrote, ( Memoirs, 78,) "The sun "shone bright; their arms glittered; and, perhaps, troops were never " shown to more advantage, than these now appeared."

« General Howe to Lord George Germaine, "New- York, 30 November, "1776; " [Hall's] History of the Civil War in America, i., 208, 209 ; Gordon's History of the American Revolution, ii., 341 ; Stedman's History of the American War, i., 215 ; etc.

6 General Howe to Lord George Germaine, "New- York, 30 November "1776."

See, also, The Annual Register for 1776, History of Europe, *178 ; History of tlie War in America, Edit. Dublin; 1779, i.,195, etc.

• General Howe to Lord George Germaine, "New-York, 30November "1776."

See, also, The Annual Register for 1776, History of Europe, *178 ; etc.

It is very probable that it was that accidental separation of the Begiments composing the Bupport of the Hessian forlorn-hope, and the consequent assault on the Americans in three distinct movements, which led Captain Hull, (in Campbell's Revolutionary Services and Civil Life of General William Hull, 65,) to suppose the assault had been originally ordered to be made, in that manner.

» In what manner the assaulting party crossed the Bronx-river has been made the subject of the speculations of several modern writers, led and, probably, inspired by the unscrupulous John C. Hamilton, (HUtory of the Republic of the United States, i.. 133,) who said the Hessian forlom-hope "refused to wade the tangled stream ; and a temporary bridge was begun" and, finally, completed,-of which bridge, he related several incidents