“His course in the Genesee Valley and the very proper punishment he administered to the savages who committed the horrible massacre at Wyoming has been eloquently traced. His campaign in Rhode Island has, perhaps, been studied in rather more detail in this neighborhood than in other parts of the country. “History records and practically every American schoolboy can tell how the Americans fought at the battle of Bunker Hill. Wherever the Revolution is known there is an intimate knowledge of that great conflict. We all of us glory in its story, and remember with gratitude and sympathy the bravery of those untrained patriots who administered such a fearful blow to British power and prestige. “Compare for a moment the battle on Rhode Island and the results secured by Sullivan’s generalship with the circumstances and the issue on that hill near Boston. The loss of the English at Bunker Hill was 1,054 men, that of the Americans 449. Until the British entered the redoubt, the Americans fought behind entrenchments. In the third attack the British captured the redoubt, drove the Americans from the hill, and retained undisputed control of the battlefield. “In the campaign on Rhode Island the inability of the French to control the sea obliged the Americans to retire to Butts Hill. In the valley separating it from Quaker, Turkey and Anthony hills, immediately south, a battle was fought, not behind entrenchments, but in the broad open, where each army had equal advantages and success was won by brilliant tactics and skill and spirit in using weapons. In the retreat and in the battle between the nearby Rhode Island hills, the English lost 1,023 and the Americans 211. After repulsing two vigorously and pertinaciously pressed charges of the English army, the Americans were obliged in the early afternoon to face a last violent onset that almost broke the right wing of Sullivan’s army under the immediate command of General Greene. Jackson’s regiment connected with Colonel Livingston’s detachment, that had contested during the early morning the British advance up the island, after a needed rest on the north side of Butts hill were marched around the rear of the army, by Sullivan’s direction, to the extreme right of General Greene’s command. The British and Hessians charged down the slope of Anthony hill and were met in the valley by Greene’s somewhat exhausted forces. It was the final struggle for victory. At this critical moment Colonel Livingston led Jackson’s regiment, using the cold steel, in a fierce onslaught against the enemy’s flank that gave the British the final blow and sent them scurrying up the slope of Anthony hill to their entrenchments on the top. The Americans, closely following the flying foe, captured Brady’s battery as an evidence of their victory.