Probably misled by the errors referred to, in the official Map, theheftiitiful Map of the same Military Operations, which illustrates Stedinan's Uittorij of the American H iir. luvs repeated the mistakes, in all their ug linesB ; and the first edition of Lossiiig's Field-book of the Heioluti»n perpetuated the unwelcome errors.

caution was necessary.^ Besides that caution, in the Commander-in-chief, there was a great scarcity of the moans for transporting the Stores and Baggage to another and distant position ; and, with commenda-

■ Colonel Harriton to General Heath, " Head-quaiiteus, October 12, "177(i ; " Colonel Grayson to the same, " IlEAn-QiiAUTEU.s, October 13, "177G;" the same to Governor Tnimbiill, " Heah-quakteus, IIaulem " Heiohts, October 15, 177G;" etc.

On the morning of the eighteenth of October, while the enemy was seen in motion to the eiMdoiirii of Throgg's neck, when that fact was coiuiuunicated to General Washington, by General Heath, the latter was ordered to return to hisconimand, which had been posted with its right at Valentine's and its left at Fort Indepeiulence, and to have it " formed, " ready for action, immediately, and to take such a position as might ap- '* pear best cak;ulated to oppose the enemy, should tlu^y attempt to land "another body of troops on Morrisania, which he lliouglit not improba- " hie ; " and General Heath " immediately obeyed the Order." (Memoirs of General Heath, 72.)

2 That scarcity will bo evident to the reader of Gem-ral Orders of the seventeenth of October, in which "some Regiments " are ordered " to " move towards them," [the enemt/,] in which Orders were also included for the government of those Regiments, in the tiansportation of their Tents and Baggage.