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of war were difcomfited. And they fled be- fore the hoit of Britain.

7. Now George^ the chief captain, had been told that Cormvallis^ the governor of the tow- er of Lud, was gone back again to unite with Kniphausen the other captain, and he believed the report, that it was even fo. Thus were the people of the provinces taken in an evil net, and were fain to turn their backs upon their enemies.

8. And there w^ere flain and wounded of the men of Britain, about fix hundred per- fons : and the flain and thofe who were mifs« ing of the hofl of the people of the provinces, were about twelve hundred men.

9. Now there were of the wounded in the hod of the people of the provinces, two chief captains, the name of the firfl was Fayette^ he was a nobleman from the kingdom of Gaul, and had left the land of his nativity to fight under the banners of the great Sanhedrim.

10. And the name of the other captain wat