As the fire of the Hessian Artillerists had been susiiended when the a^iailants had commenced to ascend the hill, it is verv evident that, wlu II Colonel Donop, the last to reach the ground, lussaulted the left of the .\nn rican line, there was no artillery on the hill, in front of him, mounletl and effective.

' General McDougal complained of Colonel Webb ; but, in General Orlin-i, Oeneral Washington stated, " The representation made of Colonel "Webb's Regiment, yesterday, by {Jeneral McDougal, appearing to bv "a mistake, and that they kept the iwst assigned them, notwiflistanding "a severe canuonade, the Genera' take.s the first opportunity to make it "known, to prevent any unfavorable impression."-- (GeiieriiJ Order; "Heao-wi AKTERs, W II iTE-l'LA INS, October 'iit, 177C.")

^Captain Hull's uupnblished Memoir, quoted in Campbell's Revolutionary Sernctt and CirU Li/e of Geneial W'illiiim Hull, 55 ; Governor

On every part of the ground, except those portions which had been occujjied by the Company of New- York Artillery and the Regiment of Massachusetts Militia, the battle had been resolutely sustained;' and the assailants, in more than one instance, had been compelled to fall back ; but the opposing forces were so unequal in their strength that a successful occupation of the hill could not have been exjjected, by any one -- indeed, the fact that the entire detachment was not cut off from the main body of the Army, and captured by the enemy, reflects the highest honor on those who occupied the hill, and fills one with wonder and admiration. It is doubtful if any who ' were not too much disabled to be removed, were taken prisoners; all who were able to move off the hill, moved off, by the left flank, by way of the road which led from the Wiiite Plains to Dobbs's lerry" -- they moved sullenly, in a great body, neither run- I "ning nor observing the best order," " covered by apor- I tion of the Delaware Regiment -- and, having crossed the bridge over which the roadway jiassed the Bronx, the site of that which now affords a passage over the river, near the present railroad-station at the White I Plains, they fell in on the rear of (leneral Beall's j Maryland Flying Camp, which General Putnam was ! leading for their support, on the hill ; and joined the