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that, after carrying off from the Hopkinson house at Bordentown, 
N. J., the volume edited by Provost Smith of the College of Phila- 
delphia, containing young Hopkinson’s Prize Essay, he returned it 
with thanks, and the book is still in the possession of the Hopkin- 
son family as one of their rare treasures. In his little book he 
reports what General Howe told him of his personal experience 
during the old French War in America, and confirms it by his 
success with light troops in the American War of Independ- 
ence. He gives a curious picture of Philadelphia in 1778, when 
Colonel von Wurmb had charge of the expeditions sent out to 
bring in supplies. He divided his force into three parties: one went 
out on the Lancaster road, another out the Marshall road, and the 
third out the Darby road—these three roads being parallel and only 
a half heur’s march apart—the woods that lined them being thor- 
oughly searched by patrols, so that the enemy, in spite of Washing- 
ton and Morgan, could never reach the foragers. He speaks of the 
success of the Americans in their attacks on small and large English 
forces not properly protected by light infantry outposts. His own 
experience in the Seven Years’ War in Europe was of service to him 
in America, and that again increased his efficiency in the war with 
France and Germany. He describes Pulaski’s failure at Egg Har- 
bor, and Donop’s at Red Bank, and Arnold’s in Virginia, and 
Armand’s at Morristown, and Tarleton’s success, and his own, as 
examples of what light infantry can do or fail in, just as they are 
well or badly led. He criticises Howe’s failure to follow up his. 
success at Brandywine, and calls it building a golden bridge for the 
enemy thus to neglect to drive him with fresh troops when he is in 
retreat. In the Jerseys, on Rhode Island, at Germantown, in Vir- 
ginia, he saw just such examples of the neglect to use light infantry 
to advantage, and he points out many instances in which their value 
was shown on both sides. Ewald also printed at Schleswig, in 
1798, 1800 and 1803, three small volumes, Lelehrungen tiber den 
Krieg, with anecdotes of soldiers from Alexander and Pompey to 
Frederick the Great and Napoleon, and some of his own personal 
experience in America. 
Seume, a well-known German writer, wrote at Halifax in 1782 
his account of his experience in the Hessian service ; it was first 
printed in Archenholz’ Journal in 1789, and a translation is in the 
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Fitstorical Society for November, 
1887; it is also found in his Autobiography, published in his col- 
