OUR Centennial year, fraught with cherished memories, has brought us to the anniversary of the spirited cngagenlents which took place on thc heights and pIains around us an hun dred years ago, between some of the Contineiltal troops under the command of Washington, and a part of the British army under Sir William Howe. The action for the American army and the American cause had a great signjficance. Our troops engagcd in it represented all sections-Virginia, hiaryland, Pennsylvania, New York, and New England-indicating the common tics that have bound us in a common dcstitly, and recalling the generous thought of Patrick Hcnry, when he said, I am not a Virginian-I am an American. It was the first success of the Americans in the New York campaign, and it occurred at a moment when both officers and men were discouraged by disaster and rctrcat, and mortified and aIarmed at art exhibition of panic the day before, which had wounded thcir sclf-respect, and impaired their courage and their hopes. It developed the bravery and spirit of our newly levied troops, and their ability, when fairly lcd, to meet in the open field the flower of the English army and the trained veterans of the Continent...