The official letter of Sir William Howe stated his loss at rather less than 100 killed and 400 wounded, and this account was accepted at the time as true. A late discovery shows its falsehood. Mr. Headley, in his recent "Life of Washington," notices the finding of a document which settles the question. It was found, he says, among Gen. James Clinton's papers, carefully filed away and indorsed by himself. On the back, in his own handwriting, is inscribed: "Taken from the enemy's ledgers, which fell into the hands of General Washington's army at the action of Germantown." Within is the following statement: "State of the British troops and position they were in when they made the attack at Brandywine, the 11th of September, 1777. The upper ford, under the command of Lieutenant Lord Cornwallis: Killed and Second Regiment, British Guards; Second wounded. Regiment, Light Infantry 1,740 612 Second Brigade, British Foot 2,240 360 First Division, Hessians 800 70 Ferguson's Riflemen 80 46 ______ _____ Totals 4,860 1,088 Middle ford, under the command of Major-General Gray: Second Battalion, Guards 500 Second Battalion, Second Highlanders 700 Second Battalion, Seventieth Highlanders 700 ____ Total 1,900 Lower ford, under the command of Lieutenant-General Knyphausen: Second Brigade, consisting of the Fourth, Killed and Fifth, Tenth, Fifteenth, Twenty-third, wounded. Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth, Fortieth, Forty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Regiments 2,240 580 Hessians to the amount of 800 28 Queen's Rangers 480 290 ________ _____ Total 3,520 898 1,900 4,860 1,088 ________ ______ The whole British force 10,280 1,986 1,986 ________ 8,294"