Burgoyne (John, 1723-1792), who commanded the British forces at the battle of Stillwater, had distinguished himself in Portugal, and had also been a member of the British Parliament before coming to America. Much was expected of his expedition. It was intended to cut the colonies in twain, and thus crush the rebellion. Burgoyne was at one time commander-in-chief in Ireland. During the closing years of his life he devoted himself to literature. =Stanza 5.= =Poor= (Enoch), a New Hampshire brigadier-general who served with distinction in the Continental army until 1780, when he died at Hackensack, New Jersey. =Learned= (Ebenezer), a Massachusetts brigadier-general who had served in the French and Indian War. =Stanza 6.= =Cilley= (Joseph), a New Hampshire colonel who was later in the commands of General Wayne and General Sullivan. =Stanza 7.= =Major Ackland=, of the Grenadier corps, a most gallant British officer, was shot through both legs in this battle. He recovered, but after his return to England he was slain in a duel into which he was drawn through his defence of the bravery of the Americans. =Stanza 12.= =Armstrong= (John), a Pennsylvania major, at first attached to the staff of General Hugh Mercer, and later to that of General Gates, with whom he remained until the close of the war. =Stanza 16.= =Brooks= (John), a Massachusetts colonel who afterward became adjutant-general. =Wesson= (James), a Massachusetts colonel who commanded a regiment in Learned’s brigade. =Livingston= (James), a New York colonel who commanded a regiment in Learned’s brigade. =Morgan= (Daniel), a native of New Jersey whose family removed to Virginia while he was yet young. He served with much distinction throughout the Revolution, and rose to the rank of major-general. 7. THE YANKEE MAN-OF-WAR. Anonymous. Of this spirited ballad Alfred M. Williams, in his “Studies in Folk Song and Popular Poetry,” says: “To this period, however [the Revolution], belongs what is perhaps the very best of American sea-songs. We do not know whether its authorship was of that time or not, although it probably was, and from internal evidence it would seem to have been composed by one of the very crew of the _Ranger_, Paul Jones’s ship, which escaped from a British squadron in the Irish Channel in 1778. It was first published, in 1883, by Commodore Luce, in his collection of ‘Naval Songs,’ with the statement that it was taken down from the recitation of a sailor.” To this fact is doubtless due the very evident break in the form of the fifth stanza. Most of the places mentioned in the poem (save Dunmore, a promontory on the southwestern coast) are situated on the southeastern coast of Ireland. The spirit of the piece, the frequent recurrence of technical expressions, together with the swinging measure, remind one (albeit somewhat remotely) of the work of the foremost balladist of our day,--Rudyard Kipling. 8. THE RIDE OF JENNIE M’NEAL. By Will Carleton.