Show with burgoyne at saratoga in 1791 an officer who had served with burgoyne wrote a volume which he called travels through the interior parts of america in a series of letters tho writer was thomas anan rey captain of the twenty ninth regiment who was with burgoyne Burgo yno at his in Mao magazine there is an excellent notice of captain work and the condition of the english is thus army waa steadily diminishing whilo the cords round it were tightening all day and night from the surrounding woods whistled the bullets of the american riflemen the soldiers so inured to fire we are told that they ate and slept under it with Bc arcely any concern while to add ferrora to the night came the dreary howl of wolves attracted by hundreds to such on unwonted banquet the american sharpshooters were naturally in their element upon tho steep aidea of the wooded ravines that formed such a feature in every battle and skirmish the longed for bayonet hung in idleness from the bolts of the british infantry there was no room or place for it the soldiers had nothing but discipline and their native valor to make up for their immense inferiority in the use of the rifle to most of their foes nor do we require Anbu reys testimony to realize what a hopeless country was this in which army now found themselves for the conduct 0 warfare upon european systems for ourselves we have always marveled at the fashion in which tho british soldier of that day halt starved and ridiculously clothed fought his way through superior numbers of his own race as well armed as he better marksmen and familiar with tho wild woods which to him must have been strange and terrible |