Dead Germans tumbled down the slope. A chaplain described seeing a green-coated Jäger “shot through the head. His brother stood over the body, complaining that he could not be buried. Another Jäger had both eyes shot out. He still lived.” The struggle was particularly vicious around a three-gun battery on the upper tip of the American defenses near Spuyten Duyvil Creek, where Lieutenant Colonel Moses Rawlings and several hundred Maryland and Virginia riflemen fought with what Washington later called “veteran bravery.”
