In his evidently new-born zeal, adverse to the military and personal rhanicter of General Charles Lee, Bancroft has exposed his entire inability to understand and correctly describe a military movement, whatever his capability of understanding and correctly describing a political movement nuiy be, in what he ha* written concerning '• the origin of " the retirement of the .\merican .-Vrmy from New York." (Histonjof the I'nited Stiites, Edit. Boston : 1860, ix., 175, note ; the same, centenai-y edition, v., 440, note.)

Ill his attempt to tiike from General Lee everthing of credit for having united with others, in ailvising that "retirement of the Amer "ican .\nuy from New York," which is now umler consideration, that venerable and distinguished histonan haj4 entirely disregarrled the action of that Council of War, in which the C'oniniander in-chief was officially informed, the first time, of the opinions of the General Officers, couccming the further occupation of the Heights of Harlem by the main botly of the American Army, on which opinions the General Orders for

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

The several positions occupied by the different portions of the Army, from day to day, have not been noticed, with any degree of particularity, in any of the official documents or publications of that period, as far as we have knowledge ; but it is evident that the command of Major-general Spencer was moved from the exterior lines, on the Heights of Harlem, to which it had been ordered on the preceding Monday, [^October 14,]' and carried into Westchester-county -- the Brigades commanded, respectively, by Brigadiergenerals Wadsworth and Fellows were moved to Kingsbridge,^ probably further northward ; and the Brigade commanded by Brigadier-general Lord Stirling, to which the Regiments commanded, respectively, by Colonels Weedon and Eeed were added,^ was pushed forward, first, to the Mile Square and, afterwards, to the White Plains.* A portion, if not the whole, of the Brigade commanded by Colonel Glover was evidently moved to support whatever guard there may have been posted on the outlet from Pell's, or Rodman's, neck ;^ two Regiments of the Massachu*