by Washington in this battlebattlewas the principal cause of his being selectedselectto command the American armies at a later day .
It is a circumstance worthy of observation , that while all America rang with his well-merited reputation , his name does not occur in any European account of the battlebattle; at least the author has searched for it without success .
It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper , whose head had been carriedcarryaway by a cannon-ball , in some nameless battlebattleduring the Revolutionary War , and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk hurrying along in the gloom of night , as if on the wings of the wind .
I had two elder brothers , one of whom was lieutenant-colonel to an English regiment of foot in Flanders , formerly commanded by the famous Colonel Lockhart , and was killedkillat the battlebattlenear Dunkirk against the Spaniards .