CHAPTER XXXV.

Fortified Camp at King’s Bridge—American and British Lines—The Morris House—Alexander Hamilton—The Enemy Advance—Successful Skirmish—Death of Knowlton—Great Fire in New York—Reorganization of the Army—Exchange of Prisoners—Daniel Morgan Regained—De Lancey’s Tory Brigade—Robert Rogers, the Partisan—His Rangers—The Roebuck, Phœnix, and Tartar in the Hudson—Military Movements by Land and Water—Letter of John Jay 337