The three regiments, having well performed the duties which fell to them, then retired across Hutchinson's Kivei and up a slope of ground to where the fourth, commanded by Captain Curtis, was This ended the fighting, alstationed, with the three field-pieces. though the British cannon continued to belch thunderously at the the

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disappearing continentals. The brigade, reports Colonel Glover, " after fighting all day, without victuals or drink," fell bark at dark , and "lay to a place three miles in the rear, where they bivouacked as a picquet all night, the heavens over us and the earth under us, which was all we had, having left all our baggage at the old encampment we left in the morning." Early the next day they joined the American command quartered in the Mile Square in the Town of Vonkers. This interesting action, or rather series of actions, occurred on Pelham soil. It served a two-fold purpose -- first, to engage and retard the van of the invading army for an entire day; and second, to give the British general a wholesome object-lesson of the mettlesonieness of the American troops and of the well-judged manner in which they had been posted to harass his advance. Dawson, after careful examination of all the known facts, concludes that the number of the enemy actually engaged by Glover and his men could not have been less than 4,000; while the two regiments of Read and Shepard, which sustained practically the entire attack of this army, could not have exceeded 400 rank and file. The American losses, according to official returns, were six men killed and Colonel Shepard and twelve men wounded. The enemy's forces comprised both British regiments and German mercenary chasseurs. The losses to the British regiments (as shown by the returns) were three men killed and two officers and twenty men wounded.