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.

See, also, (^iiartervtaster-general MiJJlin to William Dner, "MoifNT Wasic- "iNGTON, October 20, 1776."

Gordon, when describing the movement from Harlem Heights, said, "The movement was attended with much difficulty, for want of Wag- " gons and Artillery horses. When a part was forwarded, the other was "fetched on. This was the general way of removing the Cainp-equip- " page and other aiipendages of the .\rmy. The few Teams which were "at hand, were in no wise equal to the service ; and their deficiency "could be made up only by the bodily labor of the men." (History of the American lievolvlion, ii., 339, 340.)