='For a good map of these oiieratious, see Lamb's "Hi.>tor}' of New York," vol. ii. page 140. * Force, ii. page 1078.

5 Heath's "Memoirs ;" Dwight's " Travels ;" Edward de Lancey's paper in "Magazine of American History," on battle of Fort Washington; Force's "Annals."

WESTCHESTER.

inent ever known to history. It is hoped that the wealth and patriotism of the town of Westchester will some day cause an appropriate monument to be erected near the bridge in commemoration of the battle of Westchester Creek.

On the 28th of October the battle of White Plains was fought, and on the 31st, Lasher's troops, which were the last to leave King's Bridge, had joined the rest of the army at White Plains, and Westchester township was denuded of American troojis, and practically within the enemy's lines, Fort Wi\shington being the only American post south of Harlem River. Fort Independence and the other American works about Harlem River and Spuyten Duyvil Creek had been dismantled by the Americans before their retreat.^

But Westchester was soon revisited by the British, who continued to occupy it, or most of it, for the residue of the war. On November 5th, Van Knyphausen marched from New Rochelle and encamped at King's Bridge. Two days before, the British General Grant was at de Lancey's Mills (West Farms), on the Bronx : another brigade was at Mile Square, and the Waldeck Regiment was at Williams' Bridge. On the 12th Rahl with his Hessians had advanced on Manhattan Island as far as Tubby Hook (Inwood), and Fort Washington being already threatened on the south by the British who were left on the island, and the opposite Westchester shore being covered with British troops, Washington advised its surrender,^ but left its evacuation to General Greene's discretion, who was in command of a force on the Jersey shore, at Fort Lee.