vance of the Royal Army venture to cross the little valley over which it had been cannonaded, by the Americans, during a large portion of the day ; ' and after its progress toward the mainland was thus resumed, it made no attempt to pursue the retreating Americans, contenting itself", on the contrary, with quietly moving eastward, toward New Rochelle, where it also bivouaced. and rested from the anxieties and the dangers to which it had been exposed,* the main body of the Army, meanwhile, lying on its arms, at the place of debarkation, during the whole of that day and the following night,* if, indeed, it did not do so until the twenty-first of October.''

The great service which Colonel Glover and his command had thus performed, and the great skill and the equally great bravery which they had displayed, in the discharge of that very important duty, were favorably noticed, officially, at that time ; ' and,

3 Colonel Glover's letter, "BIiLE Square, October 22, 1770." * General Howe to Lord George Gvrmuiiie, " New- York, 30 November, "1776."

6 ''On the 18th, our army re embarking, proceciled along the coast ''about six miles fiirtlier, iu tlieir boats, ami then re landed at Pell's "Point, and lay on our arms that night." {[Hall's] Bistury of the Civil War in A7iurica, i., 20.^.)

8 We are not insensible of the tact that General Howe, in his despatch to Lord George Gernjaine, dated "New York, 30 November, 1776," said "the main body advanced, immediately, and laid, that night," [IVidaij, October 18,] " upon their arms, with the Left upon a creek "opposite to East Chester and the Bight near New Rochelle;" and that Sauthivr's Plan of the O/ierutitins of the King's Army confirmed tlie statement. But General Wusliington's Manuscript Plan of the Couiitnj took no notice of any such occupation of tlie mainland, as was thus stated, previously to the twenty-first ; Captain Hall, who was in the Royal Army, made no nrention whatever of any movement of that Army, during the intervening peiiod, except of that of the advance, who encountered General Glover, (Histori/ of the Civil War in America, i., 205 ;) and Stednian, who is said to have been inspired by General Sir Henry Clinton, in his Historij of the American War, (i., 212,) was equally silent, on that subject.