Lieutenant-colonel Rogers, with the Corps of Loyalists known as " The Queen's " Rangers," was detached from the main body of the Army, and pushed forward to take possession of Mamaroneck,' where, on the following night, he and his command "were roughly handled," by a party of Americans who had been despatched from the AVhite Plains, for that purpose ; * which led General Howe, on the following day, [Tuesday, October 22,] to move the Sixth Brigade of British troops, commanded by Brigadier-general Agnew, to sustain that important post." It will be remembered, also, that, on Sunday, the twentieth of October, the Royal Army was strengthened by the addition of a portion of the Sixteenth and the whole of the Seventeenth Regiments of Light Dragoons, the former commanded by Lieutenant-colonel Harcourt, an Officer of great merit;'" and that, ou Tuesday, the twenty -second of October, it was further strengthened by the arrival, at New Rochelle, of Lieutenant-general Knyphausen, with the Second Division of Hessians aud the Regiment of Waldeckers."

Taking counsel of his experience. General Howe ordered Lieutenant-general Heister, with the Left of the Army, to join in the movement ; and, on Thursday, the twenty-fourth, and on Friday, the twenty-fiftb, of October, the main body of the Royal Army was moved from the positions on which it had rested, for several days, towards Scarsdale.'- It moved in two

•1 Reed s Life of Joseph Heed, i., 2.39-24-2 ; Gordon's History of the American Beiotution, ii., 304, 317, 324, 331, 333-335 ; Marshall's Life of George Washington, ii., 473,474 ; etc.