The reputation earned earn by Washington in this battle battle was the principal cause of his being selected select to 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 battle battle ; 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 carried carry away by a cannon-ball , in some nameless battle battle during 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 killed kill at the battle battle near Dunkirk against the Spaniards .