^Sauthier's Plan of the Operatiitns of the King's Army, etc.

General Heath, an eye-witness, siiid, that, after they had "forded the "river," they "marched along, under the cover of the hill, until they "had gained sufficient gro\ind to the left of the Americans, when, by "facing to the left," etc.-- (.l/cmoirs, 78.)

^General Howe tn Jjord George (Sernitiine, *^ 'Sr.w'-YonK, 30 November, *' 177C;'' The Annuol Register for 177('», History of Europe, 17K* ; etc.

General Heath, who witnessed the movement, said that, "by facing "to the left, their column became a line, parallel with the .Americans, " when they briskly ascended the hill. . . . -- {Memoirs, I ' .Veinoirs of General Heath, 78, 79.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

were posted, as we have already stated, the Regiment of Massachusetts Militia commanded by Colonel Brooks, sheltered behind asrone wall and supported by theremains of the Maryland Regiment commanded by Colonel Smallwood, ' and, probably, by the Third Regiment of New Yorkers commanded by Colonel Ritzema ; ^ and, against these, the two assaulting parties simultaneously directed their overwhelming power. There was no Artillery to hurl destruction on either of the assailants: since, by that time, the Delaware Regiment, immediately on their left, was confronted by the Fifth and Forty-ninth Regiments, who had also crossed the river and were climbing the hill-side, "zealous to distinguish themselves," there was no support for the hard-pressed " Maccaronis " and their New York comrades : and nothing else than their own resolute wills and their strong arms and their not generally trusty and always ill-supplied muskets were there, to su])[)ort those less than eleven hundred Officers and Privates in their approaching struggle with two well-disciplined, well-armed, well-commanded British Regiments, besides the Hessian forlorn-hope, on their front, and three equally well-disciplined, well-armed, and well-commanded Hessian Regiments, on their right Hank.