[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] whole army marched before him and paid the usual salute and honors. Our troops were now in complete uniform, and exhibited every mark of soldierly discipline. Count Rochambeau was most highly gratified to perceive the* very great improvement which the army had made in appearance since he last reviewed them, and expressed his astonishment at their rapid prog-ress in military skill and discipline. He said to General Washington: "You must have formed an alliance with the king of Prussia. These troops are Prussians." Several of the officers of the French army who have seen troops of the different European nations have be-stowed the highest encomium and applause on our army, and declare that they had seen none superior to the Americans. The last of the French troops arrived on the 18th of September. The army of Rochambeau made its encampment at and about the village of Crompond,1 the Americans remaining on Verplanck's Point. During the continuance of the allies in these positions they undertook no hostile movement against the British, and Sir Guy Carleton was reciprocally inactive. Heath records, however, thai on the Kith of September "The enemy made a grand forage near Valentine's Hill. Sir Guy Carleton was out in person, as was the young prince [William Henry]. The covering party, it was said, con-sisted of five or six thousand men." And on our side Washington took the significant proceeding of an extensive reconnoiter in per-son.