that Putnam had been captured, that Washington had lost an arm, that Colonel Knox was missing. The last was true until the artillery chief appeared on Harlem Heights to great huzzahs late on Sunday. He had seized a boat and escaped up the Hudson, forfeiting to the Hessians a baggage wagon with most of his wardrobe. In a letter to his brother he asked for a bolt of blue twill for a new uniform, or, if necessary, “brown cloth, superfine.” Despite the British success, he added defiantly, “I see nothing of the vast about them, either in their designs or execution. But good God, if they are little,
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