mengerode

Updated: May 20, 2025

The outer works being too extensive to be manned by the troops in the fort, were used only to gall the assailants while advancing. On their near approach the garrison retired within the inner entrenchment, whence they poured upon the Hessians a heavy and destructive fire. Colonel Donop received a mortal wound, and Lieutenant-Colonel Mengerode, the second in command, fell about the same time.

Benson John Lossing - Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2: Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched

The outer works being too extensive to be manned by the troops in the fort, were used only to gall the assailants while advancing. On their near approach, the garrison retired within the inner intrenchment, whence they poured upon the Hessians a heavy and destructive fire. Colonel Donop received a mortal wound; and Lieutenant Colonel Mengerode, the second in command, fell about the same time.

John Marshall - The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 : Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War : which Established the Independence of his Country and First : President of the United States