[93] Frothingham's "Siege," 126, and Sabine's "Loyalists," 707.
[94] Reports vary from eighty to three hundred feet.
[95] Dearborn's account of the battle, Historical Magazine for 1864.
[96] Bancroft, v, 612.
[97] Ross's "Life of Cornwallis," quoted in Fonblanque's "Burgoyne," 159.
[98] The picturesqueness of this scene has been remarked by many writers. The best contemporary description is, of course, Burgoyne's. "To consider this action as a soldier, it comprised, though in a small compass, almost every branch of military duty and curiosity. Troops landed in the face of an enemy; a fine disposition; a march sustained by a powerful cannonade by moving field artillery, fixed batteries, floating batteries, and broadsides of ships at anchor, all operating separately and well disposed; a deployment from the march to form for the attack of the entrenchments and redoubt; a vigorous defence; a storm with bayonets; a large and fine town set on fire by shells. Whole streets of houses, ships upon the stocks, a number of churches, all sending up volumes of smoke and flame, or falling together in ruins, were capital objects. A prospect of the neighboring hills, the steeples of Boston, and the masts of such ships as were unemployed in the harbor, all crowded with spectators, friends and foes alike in anxious suspense, made a background to the piece; and the whole together composed a representation of war that I think the imagination of Lebrun never reached."—Fonblanque, "Burgoyne," 156.
[99] Lodge's "Washington," i, 133.
[100] Appendix to Frothingham's "Siege," 393.
[101] Washington reported later 139 killed, 36 missing, 278 wounded.
[102] Moore's "Diary of the Revolution," 110.