[Footnote 34: _One of the Irvines was a hatter; the other was a physician._ It was probably the latter--Dr. William Irvine--who was in this expedition, for he was then in command of the Second Pennsylvania Regiment. He had been a captain in Canada about two years. Brigadier-General Irvine was made a prisoner at Chestnut Hill, near Philadelphia, in December, 1777.] [Footnote 35: William Alexander, Lord Stirling, was a general in the Continental army. He had been frustrated in obtaining a Scottish estate and peerage to which he was clearly entitled. He assumed the title as a right.] [Footnote 36: General Wayne reported that, owing to the lightness of his field-pieces, the shot did not penetrate the logs of the block-house.] [Footnote 37: _Vide Lee's trial._ General Charles Lee, in his testimony at his trial by court-martial, after the battle of Monmouth, spoke of "Colonel Hamilton flourishing his sword" after delivering a message from Washington on the battle-field, and saying, "'I will stay, and we will all die here on this spot.' I could not but be surprised," said Lee, "at his expression, but observed him much fluttered, and in a sort of frenzy of valor."] [Footnote 38: Richard Harrison, Washington's secretary.] [Footnote 39: _A disorder prevalent in the rebel lines._] [Footnote 40: _The merit of these lines, which is doubtless very great, can only be felt by true connoisseurs conversant in ancient song._ In "Chevy Chase" occurs the stanza: "For Witherington needs must I wayle, As one in doleful dumps; For when his legges were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps."] [Footnote 41: _Who kept a dram-shop._] [Footnote 42: _A deity of the woods._] [Footnote 43: _A New England name for a horse, mare, or gelding._] [Footnote 44: _A cant appellation given among the soldiers to the corps that has the honor to guard his Majesty's person_--a body-guard.] [Footnote 45: William Cunningham, the veteran provost-marshal at New York.] [Footnote 46: Rev. James Caldwell, an earnest Whig of New Jersey, and pastor of a church at Connecticut Farms. His wife had been shot by a newly enlisted soldier in her own house, when the British, under Knyphausen, made a raid upon Springfield in 1778.] [Footnote 47: _Calling himself, because he was ordered not to do it, Earl of Stirling, though no sterling earl._ (See foot-note, page 71.) In a winter expedition to Staten Island a larger proportion of his soldiers were frost-bitten.] [Footnote 48: _Lafayette._] [Footnote 49: Now Jersey City, where the British had a redoubt. This Major Henry Lee surprised, in August, 1779, and carried away one hundred and fifty-nine of the garrison prisoners.] [Footnote 50: Mrs. Susannah Livingston, a daughter of Governor William Livingston, of New Jersey, who was suspected of political authorship.]