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Title: Historical collections of the state of New Jersey: past and present:
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885. (from old catalog) Howe, Henry, 1816-1893, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: New Jersey -- History. (from old catalog) New Jersey -- Description and travel. (from old catalog) New Jersey -- History, Local. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New Haven, Conn., J. W. Barber
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Dividing his small force into two bodies, he placed one ambush in the rear,and appearing in front with the other, demanded an immediate surrender. The Germans wished to retrograde, but meeting with the party expressly concealed to impede their retreat, and briskly assailed in front, surrendered without firing a gun. The British general, exasperated by their capture, ordered out a body of Hessians to revenge the affront; but the superior knowledge of Littell and his associates enabling them to goad the enemy at various points with spirited attacks, without any great degree of exposure,they were also driven into a swamp and compelled to surrender to inferior numbers.Mortified beyond measure at this second discomfiture, a troop of horse were ordered out;but they in turn were routed, and were only more fortunate than those that preceded them,by being able, by the rapid movement of their horses, to escape pursuit. A tory, to whom a considerable reward was offered for the performance of the service, now led 300 men
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1 j3 o 2 ^ I w OQ « 5 .-* ■> 5 ^ -? ESSEX COUNTY. 185 to the house of Capl. Littell, who, believing he was securely pent up within, commenceda heavy discharge of musketry upon it from all sides. The captain, however, was notto be so easily entrapped ; and while they were making preparations to storm the deserteddwelling, they were attacked in the rear, being previously joined by another body of volun-teers, and driven with precipitation from the field. Littell, in the interim, with a part ofhis force, had formed an ambuscade along a fence side, and perceiving the enemy slowlyapproaching, levelled and discharged his piece, and the commander fell. The British,unable, from the darkness of the night, to make any calculation with regard to the num-ber of their opposers, were intimidated, and sought safety in flight. The following inscriptions, &c., are for the most part copied fromAldens Coll. American Epitaphs. The first, written by the Hon.William Peartree Smith, was copied fro

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