Bancroft, in his History uf the I'nilt d Slates, (original edition, ix., 178 ; centenary edition, v. 442,) regarded the Rangers as only "a picket of "Rogers's Regiment of R<ingei-8," notwithstanding General Howe had described it, definitely, as a detachment of the entire "Corps of Rjin- "gers," not a portion of it, only, which had been sent forward, " to take possession of JIamaroneck ; " and no one, of either Army, con-

♦Thosewhoare thus designated (♦) were, probably, of Westchestercounty families.

t James Canuady was one of the Bedford Company who had served throughout the Campaign of 1775, under Colonel James Holmes, (rule page 101, ante.)

On the twenty-second of October, General Howe Strengthened his outpost, at Mamaroneck, which Colonel Haslet had so rudely assaulted, during the i)reccding night, by moving the Sixth Brigade of British troops, commanded by Brigadier-general Agnew, to that place ; ^ and, on the same day. Lieutenantgeneral Knyphausen, with the Second Division of the Hessians and the Regiment of Waldeckers, numbering eight thousand men, who had arrived at New York, on the eighteenth,* landed on Myers-point, now known as Davcnport's-neck, near New Rochelle,' to which place they had been taken, from the City of New York, on the flatboats of the Army.*

As all intercourse between the City of New York and the Army, which was so exceedingly important, depended on the King's troops and Navy being masters of the Sound, armed vessels were stationed, at short distances from each other, from Hell-gate to New Rochelle ; and every possible assistance was afforded by Admiral Lord Howe, to facilitate the movements of the Army commanded by his brother. Indeed, in the words of one of the best-informed writers of the history of those operations of the King's Navy, himself an Officer of the Army and a personal witness of what he described, " a vigor "and exertion, unequalled in any former expedi- " tion, prevailed through all classes in the Navy, "extinguishing jealousies, and banishing all those "ideas of pre-eminence and rank that sometimes sub- " sist between the Fleet and the Army ; and which