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.

' General Orders, " New- York August 1, 1776 ; " Gordon's History of the American Pevolution, ii., 304; etc.

6 Vide page 2i'J, ante.

See, also. General Howe to Lord George Germnine, " New-York, 30th "November, 1776;'' [Hall's] History of the CiiU War in America, i., 205 ; etc.

' Vide page 249, ante.

8 Vide pages '252, 253, ante.

8 Vide page 253, ante.

1* Vide page 249, ante.

11 Vide pnge 253, ante.

12 Information was received, at the White Plains, as early as two o'clock on Thursday afternoon, [Ortober2i,] that the Royal Army had struck its tents, on its position near New Roclielle, "early this murnirjg ;" and that it was, then, "advancing from that to this place, along the common "road."-- (Ge/ierai George Clinton to John 3[cKesson, Secretary to theSeio- York ConveiUion, " White-PlaI.ns, October 24, 2 P. M., 1776.")

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columns, with great caution ; ' and, on the twenty-fifth of October, when the heads of the columns reached Scarsdale, after their two dajs' march, they were halted; and the Army encamped in a line which was parallel with the Bronx-river and with the line of march, on the opposite side of that little stream, on which General Lee, with his heavily laden column) was transporting the Baggage and Stores of the American Army, to the White Plains- -- in many places, the two were not more than a mile distant from each other ; and, in one place, if not in others, the toiling Americans were directly within sight of their powerful enemy.