The Stockbridge Chief himself fell in this attack, and near forty of his followers were either killed or wounded. On the 16th of the next month, Lieutenant-colonel Simcoe, with the British light troops and some Hessian Yagers, surprised the American advanced post, commanded by Colonel Gist, near Philipse Manor-house; upon which occasion, Tarleton commanded the cavalry. Soon after, he attacked an American picket in King Street and captured a small party of Sheldon's light dragoons. When the campaign of 1779 opened, Lieutenant-colonel Tarleton was again in Westchester. On the 3d of June, at the head of the Legion dragoons, he crossed the Croton and beat up the quarters of an American party four miles further on, taking a few prisoners. Three weeks afterward, all the cavalry of the British and Hessian light troops were placed under his command. With these forces he crossed the Croton some distance above Pinesbridge, and having made a long detour, moving first easterly, then northerly, and at last westerly; he suddenly came upon the American posts at Delavan's Mills and Crompond, both of which he cap-tured, taking Captain Honeywell and forty seven men prisoners. Tarleton's next exploit was the Poundridge affair. During the months of July, August, and September, he made repeated attempts against Moylan's regiment of dragoons then in Westchester, under the command of Lieutenant-colonel Anthony Walton White; whom he once surprised at Roundhill on the borders of Connecticut. But the caution and address of

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this American cavalry officer were such, that his followers, at this time, sustained no material loss. Toward the close of December, when Sir Henry Clinton moved southerly, with a considerable part of his army, for the siege of Charleston and other operations in the Carolinas, the Lieutenant-colonel of the Legion accompanied him and was placed in command of the British cavalry.