FOOTNOTES to “CODES AND CAMOUFLAGE”:
[59] Of ten messengers sent out by different routes to Howe, not one returned to Burgoyne.—Winsor’s Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. VI, p. 312.
[60] In full a copy of the letter from which the above extracts are taken may be examined in the collection at East Hampton, L. I.
[61] The boldness with which some of the English magazines mentioned affairs in America during the Revolution is surprising. How many of these were inspired by Robert Townsend it would be interesting to know. In fact even Rivington might have been surprised had he discovered how often among the news items he had troubled Townsend to prepare and mail for him to the English magazines there were extra items written by Townsend that he had never seen. One that was published after the surrender of Cornwallis, calculated to destroy the morale of the troops, appears on page 676 in the December, 1781, issue of the same London magazine. It reads: “By only showing themselves one morning for a few hours near Kingsbridge, and sending the French baker boys round, to make a rattling among the broken bricks and rubbish, at the mouth of the Rariton. This was enough for him (Clinton). He instantly sent off express upon express, demanding assistance ... from Lord Cornwallis, who, at that very instant was besieged, at the distance of nearly 500 miles from New York, by that very army which still kept him in such alarm.”
[62] See Recollections of Washington by G. W. P. Custis, p. 294.
