^ Chief justice Marshall, {Life of George Washington, ii., 505,) stated, in harmony with what General Howe also stated in his despatches to Lord George Germaine, {ride page 448, ante,) that the American Army was withdrawn from the lines on the night after the engagement on Chatterton's-hill ; and that it was moved, a second time, during the night of the thirty first of October, to the high grounds of Northcastle, which he erroneously supposed to have been five miles from the White Plains,

We cannot reconcile either of these statements, without some qualification, with well-known facts which iuilic.ate, beyond a peradventure, that the lines which the main body had occupied, from the beginning, were fully occupied until the evening of the thirty-first of October, as stated in tho text ; and we await the appearance of new evidence which can throw more light on the subject, without jjermitting ourown wellconsidered convictions to l>e, in the meantime, disturbed by what appears to have been written ambiguously.

i^"Tlie left of our General's Division was not to move; but the re- "uiaiuder of his Division and all the other Divisions of the Army "were to fall back and form," on that stationery pivot, {Memoirs of Gnitral Heath, 70;) the whole occupying a new line, without having disturbed the relative positions of any of the Kegiments or Divisions of whom the Army was composed.

'I Gordon's History of the American Revolution, ii., 313, 344 ; Marshall's Life of George Washington, ii., 506 ; tieneral Hoive to Lord George Germain*, " New-York, 30 November, 1776;" [Hall's] History of the Civil War in America, i., 210; Stedman's History of the American War, i., 21G ; etc.