Excerpt from Letters and Memoirs: Relating to the War of American Independence, and the Capture of the German Troops at Saratoga Fragments of this work were first pub lished in English, by General Wilkinson, in the Memoirs of my own Times. They were afterwards, if we mistake not, copied into one or more periodical works; and all, or the greater part of them are also to be found, literally transcribed from that former translation, in Professor Sil liman's entertaining Tour to Canada. But the whole work had not as yet been transferred to the English, from the ori ginal German, when a friend, for whose taste we have a high regard, and who is, b'yfihis knowledge not less of the German than English literature, a competent judge of the merit of books in both languages, suggested the utility of adding to the lat ter, a work more peculiarly interesting to the two nations, who have that tie of common feeling, than to the Germans, who can merely find in its pages melan choly memorials of misfortunes, which no no reasonable interest, no national lse led a portion of their countrymen, ery small, it is true, to incur beyond the cean. 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.