[1]Lee had expected the first place and had been given the second. His successes while acting in a separate command (at Charleston) told heavily against Washington's reverses in this campaign; and his outspoken criticisms, frequently just, as the event proved, had produced their due impression on the minds of many, who believed Lee the better general of the two. Events had so shaped themselves, in consequence, as to raise up two parties in the army. And here was laid the foundation of all those personal jealousies which culminated in Lee's dismissal from the army. While his abilities won respect, his insufferable egotism made him disliked, and it is to be remarked of the divisions Lee's ambition was promoting, that the best officers stood firmly by the commander-in-chief.
[2]Cornwallis took no boats with him, as he might have done, from Brunswick. A small number would have answered his purpose.
[3]Ticonderoga being out of danger for the present, Washington had ordered Gates down with all troops that could be spared.
[4]As Washington had been urged to do, instead of keeping between Cornwallis and Philadelphia.
[5]Lord George Harris, of the Fifth Foot.
[6]It will be noticed that this account differs essentially from that of Wilkinson, who, though present at Lee's capture, hid himself until the light-horse had left with their prisoner.