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Excerpt from Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 of 5
The other detachment, consisting of one hun dred dragoons and between three and four hun dred infantry, under Lieutenant-colonel Boskirk, crossed from Staten Island to Trembly's Point, surprised the picket-guard at Elizabethm and captured two majors, two captains, and forty-two privates. This, likewise. Was effected without loss. The disgraceful part of the expedition was the burning of the town-house, a church, and a private residence, and the plundering of the inhabitants.
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