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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 4: (search)
arrow road, and protected on both flanks by woods and morasses which could not be turned before night. Two American brigades hung on their right, a third on their left; while the rest of the army planted their standards on the field of battle, and lay on their arms to renew the contest at daybreak. But Clinton, abandoning his severely Chap. IV.} 1778. wounded and leaving his dead unburied, withdrew his forces before midnight; and at the early dawn they found shelter in the highlands of Middleburg. Washington then marched towards the North river; the British for New York by way of Sandy Hook. On receiving the English accounts, Frederic of Prussia replied: Clinton gained no advantage except to reach New York with the wreck of his army; America is probably lost for England. Of the Americans who were in the engagement two hundred and twenty-nine were killed or wounded; of the British more than four hundred, and above eight hundred deserted their standard during their march throu