Meantime the royal army, as the aggressor, had but to march with reasonable expedition to White Plains-- the natural n, because, in Howe's case, of destination for Howe as for Washingto its central location, and the excellent roads leading thither from the Sound and the circumstance that all the other roads of the county converged there-- and Washington would be completely hemmed in. In the light of all that followed, the one vital question at the outset of this campaign was, Who should first arrive at and possess White Plains? and the advantage was decidedly with Howe, because he Washwas not hampered by any of the physical difficulties that beset situaer Westchest startling the ington. Such were 'the elements of brevity as is connow trace with as much. tion whose details we shallarn ess sistent with cle ^^ a l<7b-- 12, October , Saturday of morning the on About daybreak Genby led troops, British of s boatload many g-- mornin very fo<-v an Island, proeral Howe in person, embarked at Kip's Pay, Manhatt the ceeded through Hellgate and up the Sound, and landed, under SchuyFort where Point, Throgg's guns of the frigate « Carysfort," on <> forty-two ler now stands. A second large detachment, conveyed by for sevand n; afternoo the in place same the at d sail " was deposite thither of eral days afterward there was n continuous transportation the Point soldiers and all manner of army appointments. Neither but at nor any part of the Neck was occupied by American troops, the only loWestchester causeway and also at the head of the creek, calities affording passage to the mainland, the picked riflemen posted of General about a week previously, through the happy foresight invader on Heath still stood guard. As soon as the presence of the ripped up bridge the at men the them, to known the Neck became of redcoats party tering reconnoi first the when and its planking;