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 in the action more than five Hundred men, in 

 killed, wounded, and prisoners. The Ameri- 

 can loss was sixty four killed, two hundred 

 and seventeen wounded, and thirty eight mjssing ; 

 in all three hundred and nineteen. Besides the 

 diminution of their numbers, the battle had givr 

 en to the British a new set of ideas, impressions 

 and feelings ; novel, irritating, and depressive. 

 To see the Yankees, as they were called by way 

 of derision, marching out in regular order, com- 

 mencing and persevering in the most aniniatecj 

 attacks upon British and German troops, often 

 gaining the advantage, and refusing to quit the 

 battle till the darkness put it out of their power 

 to continue it ; the British officers v.^rc aston- 

 ished at such military elforts, and least of all did 

 they expect that such enemies ever could be 

 found in the American armies. They hnd view- 

 ed it as a matter of royal right and prerogative 

 to disperse the American rebels and cowards, 

 wherever they found them ; and it was a matter 

 of indignation, disdain, and extreme mortifica- 

 tion, to be attacked, effectually opposed, and re- 

 ally \yorsted by such men, after a long and ob- 

 stinate battle. The British general himself was 

 alarmed with the event ; and for the first time 

 seems so have been convinced, that omnipo- 

 tence was not entailed on the army which he 

 commanded. 



With the Americans, the sentiments and the 

 feelings were altogether the reverse. They be- 

 lieved, and they boasted that they had obtained 

 an important victory over the best troops of 

 JLurope. The British army was no longer view^- 

 *"d as an object of fear and dread. Instead of 



