New York: 1847, 2u7) ; Hildreth, in his History of the United Suites of Auierica, (First Series, iii., 154) ; Hamilton, in his History of the Bepublic (f the United Statisof America, (i., 129, 13LI)-- where the enemy is made to force himself over the causeway leading from Throgg's-neck to the village of Westchester ; Greene, in The Life of Xalhanael Greene, (Edit. New York : 1807, i., 2.3G-2.38) ; Ridpath, in his Popii/ar History of the VnUed States of America, (Edit. New York: 1880, 313) ; although all of them made mention ot the movement of the Royal Army from Throgg's neck, made no mention whatever, of this spirited and important skirmish.

Disregarding those who made no mention of Colonel Glover and his brave command, the reader will find in the character and number of those «ho did recognize and describe the achievements of those brave men, on that eighteenth of October, sufficient evi<iencc of the great Importance which those achievements possessed and the great influence which they secured, both in America and iu Europe, both of which are our sufticient warrant for devoting both labor and space, in our presentation of them to our readers, in as complete and as accurate a form u possible.

^ Memoir of Colunet Ituf us Putnam, in Hildreth's Biographical and Historical Memoirs of the Early Settlers of Ohio, Gl-l>3.

'Probably between the present villages of Tuckaboe and Scarsdale, near the line of the Harlem Railroad.

quietly down, listened to the conversation of the assembled countrymen, whom he discovered to be Whigs. From these, Colonel Putnam ascertained that a large body of the Royal Army was lying near New Rochelle, which was about eleven miles distant Irom the White Plains, with good roads and an open, level country between the two places ; and that at the Plains, was a large quantity of American Stores, guarded by only about three hundred Militia.