Direc-tions at the same time were given for Colonel Rahl to charge the right flank of the Americans with his whole force, after the Hessians and British should have advanced upon them in front. To give decisive effect to their operations, Lieutenant-colonel Birch with the Seventeenth regiment of light drag-oons was placed under the command of Rahl. It was about noon when the British demonstration against Chatterton Hill began. General Howe's whole army moved a short distance toward the Bronx. Soon after, the troops which had been selected for the attack marched rapidly for-ward. The display made by the royal battalions, as, while advancing to the attack or changing their positions, they passed along the ridges east and south of the American lines, was ever after spoken of, by those who watched the battle from afar, as the most splendid pageant, ever presented to their view. The day was one of transcendent brilliancy. Autumn was fast fading into winter, but the heat of this mem-orable noontide approached that of summer. Armed men drooped under its influence and cattle sought the shade. Ban-ners and pennons scarcely moved in a breeze too gentle to float them out before the anxious beholders. The bands of twenty regiments sent forth strains of martial music, and loud war songs were sung by the grenadiers of Donop, as they moved from the extreme right, to join in the attack. But all these sounds were drowned at momentary intervals, in the thunders of the cannonade. The Americans, in general plainly clothed, and insufficiently armed, presented a striking contrast, to their royal antagonists, who were complete in ap-