[1]Cadwalader seems to have done all in his power to cross his troops in the first place. His infantry mostly got over, but on finding it impossible to land the artillery—ice being jammed against the shores for two hundred yards—the infantry were ordered back. Indeed, his rear-guard could not get back until the next day. This was at Dunk's Ferry. The next and successful attempt took from nine in the morning till three in the afternoon, when 3,000 men crossed one mile above Bristol.
[2]Thomas Rodney's letter.
[3]Heath was ordered to make a demonstration as far down as King's Bridge, in order to keep Howe from reënforcing the Jerseys. It proved a perfect flash-in-the-pan.
[4]Part of Donop's force fell back even as far as New Brunswick.
[5]Stark made a personal appeal with vigor and effect. His regiment had come down from Ticonderoga in time to be given the post of honor by Washington himself.
[6]In a letter to his wife Knox gives the credit of this suggestion to Washington, without qualification.
[7]These were the Seventeenth, Fortieth, and Fifty-first.
[8]The hostile columns met on the slope of a hill just off the main road, near the buildings of a man named Clark, Mercer reaching the ground first.
[9]The Seventeenth regiment, Colonel Mawhood, carried off the honors of the day for the British.