They moved off the hill in a great body, neither running, nor observing the best order. The British ascended the hill very slowly, and when arrived at its summit, formed and dressed their line, without the least attempt to pursue the Americans. The loss on the side of the Americans was inconsiderable. That of the British was not then known. The British army having got possession of this hill, it gave ihem a vast advantage of the American lines, almost down to the centre.''''

Botta, in his history of the American Revolution, says : "The loss of men in this action was great on the one part as well as on the other."c

Among the principal actors in this scene, upon the American side, may be enumerated, Generals Washington, Clinton, Mc- Dougal, Lee, Heath, Sterling, and Read, Colonels Haslet, Smallwood, Malcolm and Glover ; Majors Hand, Lee and Lieut. Fenno ; and the gallant Hamilton, captain of artillery, (fcc, 6cc. On the British side. Brigadier Generals Leslie, Knyphausen, Rahl, De Heister, and Matthews ; Lord Percy, Count Dunop, Colonel Ralle, Colonel Ritzema, and Major Rogers, (fcc, &c.

The following letter of General George Clinton, dated Camp, at the old Place near White Plains, Nov. 2d, 1776, to a friend, is copied from the journal of the Provincial Congress :

My Dear Sir : -- Your favours of the 30th and 3Ist ultimo, were left at my tent a few minutes since. Since iny last to you, dated the day before