youngest son of General Mercer, be educated from henceforward at the
expense of the United States. They conveyed in a few words the highest
eulogium on the characters and merits of the deceased. Through
inattention, General Warren, who fell on Breed's Hill, had not been
properly noted when Congress passed their resolve respecting General
Montgomery: the proposal for paying due respect to the memory of Mercer
led to the like in regard to Warren.

On the 13th of April Lord Cornwallis and General Grant, with about
2,000 men, attempted to surprise and cut off General Lincoln, who, with
500 men, was posted at Bound Brook, seven miles from Brunswick, and
nearly succeeded in their enterprise. But by a bold and rapid movement
Lincoln, when almost surrounded, forced his way between the British
columns and escaped, with the loss of sixty men, his papers, three
field pieces, and some baggage.

At that early period of the campaign Howe attempted no grand movement
against the main body of the army under Washington at Morristown, but
he made several efforts to interrupt his communications, destroy his
stores, and impede his operations. He had received information that the
Americans had collected a large quantity of stores in the town of
Danbury and in other places on the borders of Connecticut. These he
resolved to destroy, and appointed Major-General Tryon of the
Provincials, who panted for glory in his newly-acquired character, to
command an expedition for that purpose, but prudently directed Generals
Agnew and Sir William Erskine to accompany him.

On the 25th of April (1777) the fleet appeared off the coast of
Connecticut, and in the evening the troops were landed without
opposition between Fairfield and Norwalk. General Silliman, then