[136] Letters of August 8, August 11, and August 24, 1777.
[137] Not to be confounded with the Wood Creek mentioned above, p. 147, &c., which was a feeder of Lake Oneida.
[138] Letter to Sir H. Mann, September 1, 1777.
[139] See State Papers, p. 97, in Mr. Brymner’s Report on Canadian Archives for 1890.
[140] State of the Expedition from Canada Narrative, p. 12.
[141] Kingsford makes the number to have been 746: History of Canada, vol. vi, p. 216, note.
[142] From Burgoyne’s dispatch it appears that Baum was beginning a further advance when the attack was made. His words are, ‘Colonel Baum was induced to proceed without sufficient knowledge of the ground.’
[143] The American accounts put the British casualties at nearly 1,000.
[144] It may probably have been to the disaster at Bennington that Horace Walpole referred when he wrote to the Countess of Upper Ossory on September 29, 1777: ‘General Burgoyne has had but bad sport in the woods.’
[145] Benjamin Lincoln was the American commander charged with the duty of attacking Burgoyne’s communications. He was afterwards in command at Charleston when it was taken by the English in May, 1780.