1 " I did not think the driving their rear-guard further back, au object **of the least couBetiuonce," were General Howe's official words, de- Bcrii)tiTe of that very important determination.

See, also, [Hall's] History of the Cii'il War in Amrrica, i., 211 ; Stedman's JlisU>ry of the Atiiericiin Wur, i., 216 ; Memoirs of General Heath, 81 ; Gordon's llittoyy nf the American Revolution^ ii., 344 ; Marshall's Life of Geonje IVtishimjIon, ii., .^00, 5U7 , etc.

^ Memoirs of Genera! Heath, SX-Ki ; Letter dated " Ne.vu Head-Quau- "teks, Noutii-Castle, Nov. 5, 177tj," published in The JV«m<iii'« Journal and New- Hampshire Gazette, Vol. T., No. 2('i, PoitTSMOUXn, Tuesday, November 19, 1776.

3 Memoirs of General Heath, 8:i.

< General Washington to the President of the Congress, *' White-Plains, G *' November, 1776 ; " the same to Governor Livingston, " White-Plains, "7 November, 1776;" Memoirs of General Heath, 83; Marshall's Life of George Wanhington, ii., 507 ; Gordon's History of the American Bei'olut'mi, ii., 344 ; etc.

Vide pages 429, 434, ante. ^ Vide pages 428, 429, ante.

over the Bronx-river, near De Lancey's Mill, [now the village of West Farms,'] in the Town of Westchester ; and the Waldeckers whom General Knyphausen had left at New Rochelle, on the preceding Monday, was moved to another bridge, also over the Bronx-river, three miles above the other, [then and noiv known as Williams' s-bridge :] and every other necessary preparation for an orderly and undisturbed retreat had, in the meanwhile, been taken.'