For this handsome display of talents as a partisan, the thanks of congress were voted to Colonel Van Schaick, and the officers and soldiers under his command.
[Sidenote: Expedition against the Indians meditated.] The cruelties exercised by the Indians in the course of the preceding year, had given a great degree of importance to the expedition now meditated against them; and the relative military strength and situation of the two parties, rendered it improbable that any other offensive operations could be carried on by the Americans in the course of the present campaign.

The army under the command of Sir Henry Clinton, exclusive of the troops in the southern department, was computed at between sixteen and seventeen thousand men.

The American army, the largest division of which lay at Middlebrook, under the immediate command of General Washington, was rather inferior to that of the British in real strength.

The grand total, except those in the southern and western country, including officers of every description, amounted to about sixteen thousand.

Three thousand of these were in New England under the command of General Gates; and the remaining thirteen thousand were cantoned on both sides the North River.