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THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF NEW YORK.
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saved their side from the appearance of a complete and shameful disaster.[1]

  1. Marshall, vol. iv. pp. 87-92; Washington, vol. vi. pp. 317, 326, 332, 333, 336, 376; Bancroft, vol. x. p. 229; Ewald's "Belehrungen," vol. ii. pp. 295-299; MSS. journals of Chasseur Corps, Regiment von Lossberg (Piel and Heuser), Wiederhold's Diary. See also the "Life of General Henry Lee," by General Robert E. Lee, prefixed to Lee's "Memoirs of the War," etc. General R. E. Lee says that Paulus Hook was entered by a stratagem, but this statement is not confirmed by any German account, nor by Marshall.