Among tliose from whom we have thus dissented, are the despatch of General Howe to Lord Geoi'ge Germaine, " New-York, "30 November, 177C ; " Annual Register forlTid: History of Europe, *177'; History of the War in America, Dublin: 1779, i., 194 ; [Hall's] History of the Civil War in America, i., 207 ; Gordon's History of the American Revolution, ii., 1539; Stedman's History of the Ameriean War, i., 212; Marshall's ii/eo/ George Washington, ii., 500 ; Andrews's /f(«(ory of the War, ii., 244; Murray's Impartial History of the War in America, ii., 177 ; Ramsay's History of Out American Revolution, i., 309 ; Morse's Annals of the American Revolution, 2Ij3 ; Sparks's Life of George Washington, 195; Irving's Life of George Washington, ii., 384, 385 ; Hamilton's History of the Republic, i., 130; Lossing's Pictorial Field-book of the American Revolution, ii., 821 ; Carrington's Battles of the American Revolution, 236, etc.; but we have preferred the testimony of Division Orders for the movement of the troops, the narrative of tlie movement which was written by the Major-general commanding the Division, the official Maps of the movement drawn by both the .\merican and the Royal Engineers, and our own well-settled convictions of the improliability that the main Army had been employed in throwing up entrenchments or that its laborious retreat to the Plains was made more laliorious by continuous halts for the purpose of throwing up earthworks, for any purpose. When the retreat was originally determined on, the necessity for a prompt and immediate occupation of the new-selected |>osition was too evident to admit of any such halts, for any such purposes ; and, in the great scarcity of Teams for the removal of the Stores and Baggage and Artillery, which required the men to take the places of beasts of burden, in dragging and carrying what needed to be transportcil, the main bofly of the .\miy needed no additional labor, nor is it in the slightest degree probable that any such additional labor was really imposed on it.