Note 786 — Chapter IV · (continued 2)

Cf. Washington's views, 5 Force, ii. 495, and Niles's Principles and Acts, etc. (1876 ed.), p. 464. "As the army now stands", said Knox in 1776, "it is only a receptacle for ragamuffins" (Drake's Knox, 32). Cf. Greene's Life of Greene, i. ch. 6. The British army was perhaps nearly double in numbers. On the extent of the opposing armies, see 5 Force, i. and ii.; Carrington's Battles, p. 224; Johnston's Campaign of 1776, ch. 3; Jones's N. Y. during the Rev. War, i. App. 599. On Oct. 3d a committee of Congress reported on the condition of the army around New York (5 Force, ii. 1385), and Ibid. (iii. 449) there is a return of the entire army made Nov. 3d.