During the same day, [October 14,] General Lee reached Head -quarters, on his return from the South; and the command of all the troops in Westchestercounty, then the greater portion of the Army, was given to him, with the request, however, that he would not assume the command until he should have made himself acquainted with the different portions of the post, their circumstances, and the arrangements of the troops which had been made; * and, in

1 General Orders, " HKAD-QUABtKuS; BAHLEat HkIghts, OctoW l.^, " 1776."

2 Memoirs of leiieral Ilealh, 71.

3 Colonel HarrUon to the Cmtgress, " IlKAii-in Ani KUS, IIauI.kM Heights, " October 14, 1770 ; " Oic same to Peter R. Linngslon, " IlEAD-QiiAKTEns, " Hari.km HKKiiiTS, Octuber 14, 1770 : Memoirs of thmcrul Uenth, 71.

4 Memoirs of General Heathy 71 .

There is nothing which indic.ited the general consciousness of the helplessness of the country, ut the time of whidh we write, as much as the general dependence of the country, as well as that of the Army, on General Charles Lee, an officer of large military pretentions; the ambitious leader of that party, in the Congress and elsewhere -- mainly New Englanders -- who was inclined to depreciate, if not to (piticially embarrass, General W ashington ; and the self-appoinled and very w illing and very

the General Orders of the day, the Commander-inchief ordered Colonel Bailey's Regiment to join General Clinton's Brigade, and Colonel Lippet's Regiment to join General McDougal's Brigade -- each of them "to take their tents and cooking utensils, "and to lose no time;" -- the two Connecticut Regiments, commanded, respectively, by Colonel Storrs and Major Graves, were ordered " to be in readiness " to march into Westchester, at a moment's warning;" and Generals Putnam and Spencer, the former commanding Heard's, Beall's, and Weedon's Brigades, and the latter commanding Lord Stirling's, Wadsworth's, and Fellows's Brigades, were ordered to remain on Harlem Heights and to continue the works of entrenchment thereon.