It will be seen that five hundred and sixty Officers, Staff, non-commissioned Officers and Musicians, and two thousand and seventy-six Privates, present and fit for duty, survived the hazards of the engagement, and had returned to the Camp, five days after the Battle ; and the reader will readily perceive that our estimate of the effective strength of the detachment on the occasion under consideration, is a reasonable one, sustained as it is by the contemporary statement of Lieutenant-colonel Tilghinan, one of the Aides of General Washington, (Letter to Ms father, " Whitk-Plaihs, 31" October, 1776 ; ") and by that of Brigade-major Tallmadge, of General Wadsworfh's Brigade, himself a participant in the affair on the Plain and in the discreditable retreat, (Memoir of Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge, prepared by himself, 13 ;) for both of which see pages 260, 261, ante.

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