...the ground in some places was filled with the slain, and numbers got off with the loss of arms, &c. As soon as the firing ceased from the ships I was...the intrenchments. While I was amusing myself with these sights, and picking up some curious trifles, several volleys of musketry was fired from a boat...

...without losing a single man." Not all the Americans got away. As another British officer would write, "I saw a Hessian sever a rebel's head from his body and clap it on a pole in the entrenchments." Clinton and his advance corps pressed inland unopposed for a quarter of a mile, to...