1. Ensign Jeremiah Greenman, then at West Point, wrote in his diary entry for this date: “this day arrived the Adjt Genl to the French Army & a Number more officers. we saluted him with 13 Cannon” (Greenman, Diary description begins Robert C. Bray and Paul E. Bushnell, eds. Diary of a Common Soldier in the American Revolution, 1775-1783: An Annotated Edition of the Military Journal of Jeremiah Greenman. DeKalb, Ill., 1978. description ends , 186). Major General Chastellux described in his journal entry for that date how he met officers that Heath had sent, completed his journey to West Point, and reviewed troops marching under Brig. Gen. John Stark’s command: “The troops were ill clothed, but made a good appearance; as for the officers they left nothing to be desired either in their bearing or in their manner of marching and giving commands.” Chastellux then boarded Heath’s barge. As it “approached the opposite shore,” Chastellux heard “thirteen 24-pounders, which were fired successively. This was a military salute, with which General Heath was pleased to honor me in the name of the thirteen states. Never was honor more imposing nor more majestic; every shot was, after a long interval, echoed back from the opposite bank with a noise nearly equal to that of the discharge itself” (Chastellux, Travels in North America description begins Marquis de Chastellux. Travels in North America in the Years 1780, 1781 and 1782. Translated and edited by Howard C. Rice, Jr. 2 vols. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1963. description ends , 1:89–91, quotes on 90–91). Chastellux inspected the fortifications at West Point that evening, left the next morning, and reached GW’s headquarters on 23 Nov. (see Chastellux, Travels in North America description begins Marquis de Chastellux. Travels in North America in the Years 1780, 1781 and 1782. Translated and edited by Howard C. Rice, Jr. 2 vols. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1963. description ends , 1:93–96, and GW to Samuel Huntington, 27 Nov., and n.1; see also GW to Heath, 13 Nov., and n.1).

Heath wrote in his memoirs for 21 Nov. that he took Chastellux “after dinner” to view “forts Clinton, Putnam, Willis, &c. At evening Count Noailles, Count Damas, and Maj. Duplessis, arrived at the Point. The next morning, about 9 o’clock, Gen. Chastellux, and the other French officers, amidst a severe cold storm of rain, embarked on board the barge, and went down the river to King’s Ferry, on their way to head-quarters; on leaving West Point, they were again saluted by 13 cannon” (Wilson, Heath’s Memoirs description begins Rufus Rockwell Wilson, ed. Heath’s Memoirs of the American War. 1798. Reprint. New York, 1904. description ends , 278–79).

2. Lt. Col. Henry Dearborn wrote in his journal entry for this date: “six Batallions under the Command of Brigadeer Genl Stark march’d towards the Enemies lines as a covering party to several hundred teams that ware collected & sent down as a forrageing party near the Enemies lines.—we proceeded within about 10 miles of Kings Bridg on the several roads leading thereto, & remaind until the teams ware loaded, we toock every meathod to provoke the Enemy to come out & attack us but to no purpose.—after remaining out six nights without any covering but the heavens, (three nights & three days exposed to heavy rains & hard marching,) returnd to camp” (Brown and Peckham, Dearborn Journals description begins Lloyd A. Brown and Howard H. Peckham, eds. Revolutionary War Journals of Henry Dearborn, 1775–1783. 1939. Reprint. New York, 1971. description ends , 209). For the forage operation, see Heath to GW, 17–18 Nov.; see also The Aborted Attack on the Northern Approaches to New York City and the Feint on Staten Island, 9–24 Nov., editorial note.