[343] Ib., 331-32.
[344] Ib.
[345] "The rebels carried off a large number of their wounded as we could see by the blood on the roads, on which we followed them so far [nine miles]." (British officer's account of battle; Pa. Mag. Hist. and Biog., xvi, 197 et seq.)
[346] Marshall, i, 170-71.
[347] Ib., 181.
[348] Ib., 181-82.
[349] Marshall (1st ed.), iii, 287. Marshall omits this sentence in his second edition. But his revised account is severe enough.
[350] The Reverend Jacob Duché, to Washington, Oct. 8, 1777; Cor. Rev.: Sparks, i, 448-58.
[351] Washington to President of Congress, Dec. 10, 1777; Writings: Ford, vi, 238-39.
[352] Clark's Diary, Proc., N.J. Hist. Soc. (1st Series), vii, 102-03. "It seems that the enemy had waited all this time before our lines to decoy us from the heights we possessed." (Ib.)