This watercolor shows Brunswick dragoons of the Regiment von Riedesel cutting their way through encircling American forces at the Battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777, on the Walloomsac River in northern New York. Of two hundred German dragoons who fought bravely under Lieutenant-Colonel Baum, only one officer and twenty-nine men survived to return to Burgoyne's British army before it was compelled to surrender at Saratoga.

The caption by Lefferts at the lower left identifies the subject as a drummer of the light infantry company of the 49th Regiment, 1777. The caption accompanying the published version of this study mistakenly identifes the soldier as a drummer of the light infantry company of the 5th Regiment. Though both the 5th and 49th regiments had facings of green, the lace of the 5th Regiment was white with two red stripes while the lace of the 49th Regiment was white with two red and one green.

This watercolor depicts buildings on Broadway from no. 58., at the corner of Exchange Place, to no. 74, about halfway up the block to Wall Street. It was copied by Hosier from Jones and Newman's Pictorial Directory of New York, 1848. (There is a copy in the Print Room, NYHS.)

This is one of the artist's studies of New York City in wartime, 1918-1919.

This study was on the reverse of a section of John Hill's (q.v.) engraving of View near Fort Montgomery (1822) for the Hudson River Portfolio. The Little Falls church is seen in the center.

When this view was sketched the de Neuvilles were staying in New Haven, planning to return to France as soon as the political situation permitted.

The three-story brick hotel was designed in 1797 by Samuel and John Hooker, father and brother of Philip Hooker, the architect. It was erected in 1798 on the bank of the Mohawk River by Gerrit Boon, agent for the Holland Land Company. In 1805 a Polish traveler called it a "magnificent hotel."

The buildings depicted were located at 60 and 62 State Street. The names on the the signboards are of William Caldwell, merchant, and I. and J. Townsend, ironmongers.

Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867), poet and author of Fanny and Young America, died in Guilford, Connecticut, where a monument was erected at his grave.

These buildings are nos. 168 to 178 on Broadway as they appeared ca. 1848. The structure at the left at the northeast corner of Broadway and Maiden lane is the Howard Hotel. This watercolor was copied from Jones and Newman's Pictorial Directory of New York (1848).