We can count on very few Continental troops; our militia has its various rendezvous, and it turns out at every call.

The few companies of my regiment of foot are widely scattered; one company left here as escort to the military train an hour ago.

Sheldon's 2nd Light Dragoons are scattered all over the country.

Two troops and headquarters remain now here at my house." He waved his hand westward: "So desperate is our condition, gentlemen, that Colonel Moylan's Dragoons have been ordered here, and are at this moment, I suppose, on the march to join us.

And--I ask you, gentlemen--considering that in New York City, just below us, there are ten thousand British regulars, not counting the partizan corps, the irregulars, the Tory militia, the numberless companies of marauders--I ask you how you can expect to draw recruits from the handful of men who have been holding--or striving to hold--this line for the last three years!" Boyd shook his head in silence.