Excerpt from Memoirs of Major-General Heath: Containing Anecdotes, Details of Skirmishes, Battles, and Other Military Events, During the American War To preferve and perpetuate a dazzy journal of occzzrrmcer, through nearly the whole of the late American war, is the prefent objee't. And al though the followmg pages are not decorated with the flowers of Greece or Rome, and for their dic tion cannot claim the patronage of the learned, they contain a Plate of Media detail, which may not be unpleafing to p'oiterity, who will with, as much as is poflible, to learn from every remaining vefiige, the conducr and fuccefl'es of their ancef tors, in that revolution which laid the foundation of the independence and fovereignty of their coun try. TO them, therefore, are the following Me moirs bequeathed, by him who was an eye-wit nefs to many of the faels which are related, and who colleeled the others from the belt information the then moment and circumftances would admit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.