Backus, Major, his Light Horse Corps thanked by Washington, 61 Barker's House, Scarsdale, 30 Beall's brigade of Marylanders at battle of White Plains, 54 Berthier, the brothers, 73, 74, 95 Breakneck Hill, 2 Brinkerhoff, Col., 36 British Army, position of, in Sep-tember, 1776, 2; movement of to Throg's Point, 9-10, 14; advance to Pelham Point, 14, 15, 16; action at Pelham Heights, 16-18; at New Rochelle and Ma-maroneck, 19, 20, 25; move-ment towards White Plains, 30, 31, 34; its dispositions before the battle of White Plains and the advance against the Americans, 42-3; De Heister attacked by Spencer's advance and first Brit-ish attack on Chatterton Hill re-pulsed, 43; Hessians occupy ele-vated position favorable for at-tack on Chatterton Hill, 44; final assault on Chatterton Hill, end-ing in retirement of Americans, 48 ff.; dispositions of, after the battle and losses, 54; weather de-fers further attack by, 55-6; reconnaissance of new American position, 57-8; retirement of, to the west, 59; superiority of con-dition and equipment of, over Americans, 61 Bronx River, 13, 14, 19 Brooks, Col., in defense of Chat-terton Hill, at battle of White Plains, 46, 52 Bryant, Capt., 57 Bushnell, David, his American Turtle or torpedo, 5, 8

Carysfort, British frigate, 10 Chastellux, Marquis de, 76 Chatterton, Michael, 55 Chatterton Hill, 26; part of Amer-ican position at Whtie Plains, 41-2; repulse of first British at-tack on, 43; position of Spencer's troops on, 44, 46; Washington's anxiety for security of, and com-position of troops defending, 45-6; the second British attack on, 48 ff.; Americans withdraw from the hill, 53-4 Clinton, Gen. George, 13, 59 Clinton, Sir Henry, in command of British right at White Plains, 42 Compo Hill, Conn., 100; final stand of British at, in their retreat from Danbury, 117-20 Continental Congress, 5, 13 Cornstalks in construction of field works, 35, 58 Corsa, Andrew, guide, 68, 73, 75, 76 Courtland Manor, 3