New-York : 1807 ; Di-akc's Life and Coi-rcsjwndenee of Henrij Knox, Major-general in the Ileeolutionanj Anny ; .Tones's HistA>rtj of Sew York during the flevohdionarij War, and de Lancet's SoleA on that work ; Bancroft's i/istoci/ <// (Ac United Stales, hoi\\ the original and the centenary editions ; Bolton's History of Westehester-eounty, both editions ; Tarbox's Life of Israel Pulnom ; Carrington's B"(//c,s the American Iterolntinn ; and Ridpath's History of the United Slates.

Those works, bearing on the subject, in the (lei'inan language, which are in our own library, were put away, and couM not be reached without undue labor ; and we were notjihysically able to go elsew here, to con suit them. For those reasons, they have not been t^\an\ined.

1 A'ide pages 438, 439, 44<l, ante.

2 Vide pages 442--144, ante.

^General Howe to Lord George Gennaine, "New-Yokk, 30 November, " 1770 ; " Stednian's History of the American War, i., 215; [Hall's] Hulory of the Civil War In .imerica, i., 209 ; etc.

■* Stedman'8 History of the American H'ar, i., 210.

^ Memoirs of Major-general Heath, 78.

led by a detachment of about twenty Light Dragoons, capering and brandishing their sabres, who leaped the fence of a wheat-field, situated at the foot of the hill on which the Regiment commanded by Colonel Malcolm had been jjosted." The horsemen evidently supposed the hill was unoccupied; and, it is probable, they expected to turn the flank of the American lines, and to secure an easy victory ; but Lieutenant Fenno and his field-piece were also on " the South brow of " the hill ; " ' and, when the horsemen approached, he gave them a shot which, " by striking in the midst "of them," killed one of them.* The troop was immediately " wheeled, short about, and galloped out of " the field as fast as they came in ; rode behind a little "hill, in the road; and faced about; " the other portions of the column, at the same time, as they successively came up, wheeling to the left, by platoons ; and, passing through a gateway or bars, directed their march, westward, to the place where the Left of the Army had been halted." With that movement of the extreme Right of the Army, and with that of the Hessian and British troops, on the high grounds, on the Avestern bank of the Bronx, on its extreme Left, already mentioned, the Royal Army closed the operations of the day.