Lee, encamped were British the where section the evei-fiipon reaching (Scarsdalel, was apprehensive of attack, and by a forced niglll march lefl the Tnckahoe Uoad ami gained the Dobbs Kerry road, by which army lie proceeded the rest of the way. There was no pursuit of the Colonel even and City, York New in remaining by the British forces Lasher's little command of a few hundred men, which Washington had left at fori Independence as a guard for Kingsbridge, safely joined the main body at White Plains after being summoned to do so on

the 27th.]

( m, the mot inn- i^ the 28th of October, when Howe moved up from Scarsdale to attack Washington, the only American force remaining south <A' White Plains was the garrison at fori Washington on Manhattan Island, retained t here, against the judgment of the com mander in chief, in deference to the opinions of his subordinates and the wish of congress. It may be said, we think without the possibility of mistake, that for fully six days after General Howe's passage to Pell's Neck on the L8th it was abundantly in his power, with ili«> forces at his disposal and from the positions successively occu pied by him, to cut the Revolutionary army in twain by an easy flank movement; and that, without speculating at all as to the probable maximum results of such a movement executed at any time in that period, its minimum results could not have failed to be either the destruction or capture of a very considerable section of our army. Ym in face of the tremendous peril to which the army in its very integrity was exposed, not the minutest portion of it suffered harm at Howe's hands; and, indeed, if any single American soldier was killed, or wounded, or made prisoner on the march from Kingsbridge to White Plains as the consequence of aggression by the enemy, the fact is beyond our sources of information.