History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

It could hardly be considered, therefore, with any degree of propriety, as anything else than a detached and indei)endent position, formmisHioned and Xon-evnuuisKioned ({[Heerf, Rank and File, Kdled, Wuuuded, and MinrtuKj, etc., appendeil to his despatch to Lord George Germaine, ilated "New-York, 3 December, 1776." We have compared it with the Return of the Killed and Wounded of the Second Brigade, etc., made \>\ General Leslie ; and find tliat, although the details of the cla.ssifications differ, the aggregate of the British loss is the same -- one hundred and fifty-seven Officers and Men.

General Hoire's Return of Commisttioned and Xoti-cnmmmtoned (tffieerA, Rank and File, Killed, Wounded, and Missing, appended to his despatch to Lord George Germaine, dated "New-York, 3 December, 1776."

It is i)roper for us to say, however, that that Return induiled al! the losses sustained by the Regiments referred to, from the nineteenth to the twenty-eighth of October, both these dates included ; and it is possible, therefore, that some of the casualties named in the text were sustained elsewhere than on or near Chatterton's-hill. We have no means for ascertaining their exact losses, on the twenty-eighth of October.

11 We are not insensible tliat Stedman, in his History of the American War, (i., 214,) said "the reason of their " [the Americans,] "occupying " this posture," [on Chatterton's-hill,] " is inexplicable, unless it be that " they could not be contained within the works of their Camp;" but the reason assigned was too evidently ridiculous to be regarded with the slightest respect.