_the pageantry of domestic warfare._ An allusion to the vogue of the
militia encampments as places of fashionable resort.
_important depredations at—Martha’s Island._ Early in September
Major-General Grey, under orders from Sir Henry Clinton, invested
Martha’s Vineyard and carried off “a considerable and most desirable
contribution, consisting of 10,000 sheep, and 300 oxen, for the public
service at New York” (_The Annual Register_ for 1779, “History of
Europe,” p. 2).