Lossing, {Pictorial Field-hook of the Rero- Intion, ii., 823,) said, uncertainly, it was "toward tho Croton River." General Kno.\, in a letter written to his brother, dated " Near White- " Plains, .32 miles from New-York, 1 Nov. 1776," said "the enemy's "possession of this hill obliged us to abandon some slight lines thrown "np on the White Plains. This we did, this morning, [and retired to "some hills about half a mile in the rear."

As the left of the former line did not move from the position which it had occupied since the twenty-second of October; and because the remainder of the Army, without disturbing the formation of the line, did no more than to swing back, on a pivot, into its new jiosition, the extreme right could not have been more than two miles distant from the former line, probably it was not much more than half that distance.

13 General Washington to the President of the Congress, " White-Plains, "6 November, 1776."

See, also, Gor.lon's History of tlte American Revolution, ii., 344 ; Marshall's Life of Genrgi Washington, ii., 506 ; [Hall's] History of the Civil War in America, i., 210 ; Stedman's History of the American War, i , 216 ; etc.

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which had been vacated ; ' and, during the night, it set fire to several barns and one house, which contained forage ; and some Provisions which, for the want of team-i, could not be removed, were also destroyed.''