But, because the entire military force, except the garrison of Fort Washington, had been moved into Westchester-county as early as noon, on the twentieth ; because General Greene had found Head- quarters, " near King's Bridge," on the evening of the nineteenth, {Letter to the Continental O^igress, "Camp at Fout Lk.e, (lately Fort Constitution,) October 20, 1776;") because Lieutenant-colonel Tench Tilghman, one of the General's Aids, had addressed a letter to William Duer, dated " HEAn-QUARTERS, Kin<!'8 "Bridge, October 20, 1776 ; " because Colonel Harrison, the General's Secretary, had addressed a letter to the President of the Continental Congress, dated " King's Bridge, October 20, 177C, half-after one o'clock, "P.M.;" and because General Washington, himself, had addressed a letter to Colonel Joseph Trumbull, Commissary-general of Provisions, dated, " HEAD-QrARTEUs, King's Brhige, October 20, 1770," we prefer to consider the Ordirly linok -- which was in evident disorder, from the eighteenth until the twenty-third (only a single entry appearing in it, during that long interval)-- and, necessarily, Doctor Sparks, to have been in error ; and that Head quarters were really at or very near to Kingsbridge, as early aa the afternoon of the nineteenth.

■ Sautliier's Plan of the Operations af the King's Army.

« General Itoive to Lord George Germnine, " New- York, 30 November, "1770;" [llM's\ History of the Cii-U War in Amerira, i., 205 ; .Stedman's History of the American War, i., 212 ; Gordon's History uf Ihe American Ileiolntion, ii., 339 ; Sauthier's Plan of Ihe OperatUms of the King's Army ; Plan of the Country from Prog's Point to Croton ffic r ; etc.