At that point also a large quantity of cordwood had been piled up, which General Heath found to be "as advantageously situated to cover a post defending the pass as if constructed for the very purpose." It Avas a valuable strategic position -- a few men posted there could hold an army at bay. and, moreover, as the bridge and causeway communicated direct with the Village of Westchester, it was a very necessary precaution to have them guarded, quite irrespective of the pos-

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be the chosen landingsibilitv that Throgg's Neck might prove to Accordingly the genplace of the now daily expected invading host. ed Colonel Hand, eral-we qnote from -Heath's Memoirs "-" direct of the best sub ah one upon fix to camp, to return immediately on his and assign them corps, his of men tern officers and twenty-five picked m case the m and tin.es; all at post alarm their to this pass, as officer immediately to made a landing on Frog's Neck to direct this in readiness to take np the planks of the bridge; to have everything the riflemen of fire the unless it do to not but set the mill on fire, on the enemy the should appear insufficient to check the advance of to recreek; the of head to assign another party to the causeway; supbe should he that and ; landed enforce both, in case the enemy ported." Upon the arrangements thus made were to depend, a tew Of army. days later, perhaps the very salvation of the American y Histor his in , Morris am Fordh the fio-ht which occurred there, Mr. was the of the Town of Westchester," appropriately says that it d that the "Lexina-ton of Westchester," and that it is to be "hope some day will wealth and patriotism of the Town of Westchester the bridge m cause an appropriate monument to be erected near r Creek.' ' the baffle of Westchestenow commemoration of period arrived the whole oi at which we have Lou- before the into active service. ordered been had militia County the Westchester some were Some were sent to Peekskill and the Highlands, and d to attache were them of most but posted along the Hudson River; detailed to General Heath's command at Kingsbridge, and were te, o-uard the southern ami eastern shore line.