"Whig and Tory has been lost in one general scene " of ravage and desolation." ' In that work, the Hessians and the British troops were equally notorious ; and what the soldiery spared, was frequently carried away by the soldiers' wives and mistresses, who formed a part of the retinue of the Army. 8 Indeed, the warmth of controversy called out from one of the most prominent Loyalists of that period, the following graphic description of the outrages inflicted by the King's troops: "The inhuman treatment alluded to, " was the indiscriminate plunder suffered to be com- "mitted, by the soldiery under his command, on " Staten Island, Long Island, the White Plains, and " in the Province of New Jersey, where friend and " foe, loyalist and rebel, met with the same fate -- a "series' of continued plunder, which was a disgrace to " an Army pretending to discipline, and which, while " it tended to relax the discipline of the troops, could " not fail to create the greatest aversion, even in the "breast of loyalty itself, to a service which, under the " fair pretence of giving them protection; robbed them, " in many instances, of even the necessaries of life." 9 But the sufferings endured by the inhabitants of Westchester-county were not confined to those which were produced by the outrages inflicted by the Royal Army and its followers. We have already alluded, 10 • incidentally, to the robberies of Horses which were inflicted on the farmers of that County, by Officers of the American Army, for their private uses, at their respective homes -- not by the Rank and File, nor by the soldiers' wives and concubines, nor in a foreign country; but by the Commissioned Officers of the Army of Americans who had been moved into the County, for the protection of the inhabitants and of their properties.