No Bomb Proofs.
Redoubt No. 2. A slight Wood Work 3 Feet thick very Dry no Bomb Proofs, a single Abatters, the work easily set on fire -- no Cannon.
Redoubt No. 4. A Wooden work about 10 feet high and four or five feet thick, the West side faced with a stone wall 8 feet high and four thick. No Bomb Proof, two six pounders, a slight Abatters, a commanding piece of ground 500 yards Wt.
The North Redoubt on the East side built of stone 4 feet high, above the stone wood filled in with Earth, Very Dry, no ditch, a Bomb Proof, three Batteries without the Fort, a poor Abatters, a Rising piece of ground 500 yards. So, the approaches Under Covor to within 20 yards. -- The Work easily fired with Faggots diptd in Pitch, &c.
South Redoubt much the same as the North a Commanding piece of ground 600 yards due East-- 3 Batteries without the Fort.
"The following document explains itself: --
HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.
No. 13. [In Arnold's hand-writing.]
[Endorsed,]
Copy of a Council of War, held Sept. 6th, 1780. At a Council of War, held in Camp Bergen County Sept. 6th, 1780. Present -- the Commander-in-Chief.
The Commander-in-Chief states to the Council, that since he had the honor of laying before the General Officers, at Morristown, the 6th of June last, a general view of our circumstances, several important events have occurred which have materially changed the prospects of the Campaign.