The loss sustained by the Americans was not as great as was, at first, supposed ' -- the return to the Camp of the greater number of the fugitive New Eiiglanders reduced the supj)0.sed losses from " between " four or five hundred in killed, wounded, and misa- " ing," which was the first estimate, to twenty-two killed, twenty-four wounded, and one missing, in the detachment commanded by General Spencer;^ and, exclusive of the losses sustained by the Regiments commanded, respectively, by Colonels Haslet and Brooks, of which no Returns have been found, the loss of those who were on the top of the hill and who fought the battle, was two Captains, four Sergeants, one Corporal, and eighteen Privates, killed; one Colonel, three Lieutenants, one Ensign, four Sergeants, and forty-three Privtites, wounded ; and sixteen Priber of those who remained, after the Militia had given way, to 8i.\ hundred men; Chief-justice Marshall, (Ilistonj «/ George Wusltingttm, ii., 502,) and Doctor Sparks. (Lift- of General M'ushiiiijlwt, 190,) each with the papers of General Washington before him, statcil the force under General McDoiigal was "about sixteen hundred" men.

1 General Howe was silent concerning the iiunuM'ical strengtli of the force which he had thus employed ; and none of the British authorities were any more coniinuuicative. Stediiian, however, {Hislonj of the American War, i., 215,) clearly intimated that tiic force which was required to take and occupy Chatterton's-hill, when diverted for that purpose, so greatly weakened the Royal .\rniy, then on the White Plains, that " it was obvious that the latter could no longer ex|)ediently "attempt anything against the enemy's" [ftie Amerintnx' \ main " body."