Excerpt from Memoir of Alexander Macomb, the Major General Commanding the Army of the United States The reader, it is hoped, will deem me excusable in having sprinkled this memoir with brief notices of those actors in the scenes described, whom the narrative natu rally and necessarily introduced. The delay which has taken place in the publication, occasioned by the pressure of my engagements, has not, of course, affected, 111 any degree, the verity of its state ments. Truth is the same, at Athens and at Rome, now and forever; and the truths, especially, of History, like Pyramidal Structures, tower through all time, and solidi fy by the accumulation of ages. They stand, mid the revolutions of human affairs, like fixed points in the hea vens, toward which philosophers and statesmen point their instruments of observation, and gather calculations for the expansion of science and for the conduct of na tions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.