. The battle of Pell's Point (or Pelham) October 18, 1776. Being the story of a stubborn fight. With a map, and illustrations from original photographs and family portraits. Capt. Ponds company; Daniel Deland,of Capt. Warrens; Ezekiel Fuller, of Capt. Peters. In Shepards regiment,Sergeant Charles Adams, Sergeant James Scott, private Thaddeus Kemp, all ofCapt. Isaac Bolsters company. fSeveral Hessian officers are buried in the church-yard of St. Pauls at EastChester (see the view opposite p. 22). The edifice dates from 1 704. 8 Lushington says they lost two light infantry officers (names not gi
. The battle of Pell's Point (or Pelham) October 18, 1776. Being the story of a stubborn fight. With a map, and illustrations from original photographs and family portraits. Capt. Ponds company; Daniel Deland,of Capt. Warrens; Ezekiel Fuller, of Capt. Peters. In Shepards regiment,Sergeant Charles Adams, Sergeant James Scott, private Thaddeus Kemp, all ofCapt. Isaac Bolsters company. fSeveral Hessian officers are buried in the church-yard of St. Pauls at EastChester (see the view opposite p. 22). The edifice dates from 1 704. 8 Lushington says they lost two light infantry officers (names not given) andsome men. He says the Grenadiers were exposed only to the fire of the Ameri-can artillery, which was ill-served. (Lord Harris was the senior captain ofthe 5th Foot, and captain of the Grenadier company). This shows that this regiment at least took no part in the encounter until theHutchinson had been crossed, as it was only then the American cannon wereused. 3 It was he who, with five companies of his regiment—the 40th—successfullyheld the Chew House, at the battle of Germantown, just a year later, andpractically won the day for the British. *» o -». x. Battalion of the Light Infantry. But if the Hessian loss cannotbe given with official detail, it can be reckoned with substan-tial accuracy. For several* days, deserters from the enemycame into the American camp. Each was questioned sepa-rately and without the others knowledge, and the sum oftheir testimony was that Howes total loss was from eighthundred to a thousand—in other words, a total equal to twicethe force of the patriots! f As Dawson justly observes, it is difficult to believe thatfour hundred Americans, familiar with the use of firearms,sheltered by ample defences from which they could fire de-liberately and with their guns rested on the tops, could havefired volley after volley into a large body of men, massed in acompacted column in a narrow roadway, without having in-flicted as extended damage as th
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