.\s the Delaware Regiment commanded by Colonel Haslet, was of the Brigade commanded by General Lord Stirling, and was ordered by General Washington " to take possession of the hill and the command of **the jMilitia Regiment there posted ; which was done,'* of which there has been no question ; and since the Brigade which was conmianded by General McDougal subsequently moved up the same hill, which no one has ever pretended to deny, it is not evident why Colonel Carrington, (Buttles of the Aiiwrican Revolution, 240,) without the slightest authority to sustain him, made a special attempt to belittle Colonel Haslet, individually, and as an Officer-- he could not belittle his doings nor those of his command, on that lield -- because, iu his Report of the action, to General Rodney -- the only Report from an actual participant in the affair, which has come down to us -- he described, in detail, his own and his gallant Regiment's portions of the doings on that historically important occasion.

3 " Colonel Kali . . . took possession of it. with great alacrity, to " the approbation of Lieutenant-general Heister, who wasacquainted with " this movement by Sir William Ei-skine," the (Quartermaster-general of the British .\rmy. -- (General Howe to Lord George Gerniaine, "New-York, " 30 November, 1776.")

It will be seen, from that paragraph, that the action of Colonel Rail, in thus occupying a position on the right flank of the Americans who were occupying Chatterton's-hill, received the favorable notices of both the British and the German Generals, commanding ; we shall see, hereafter, how important that action was, in the subsequent engagement.