History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900
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. Aside from the engagement in Pelham on the 18th and the affair at the outlying British post of Mamaroneck on the morning of the 22d, both brought on by the enterprise of the Americans, there were two or three skirmishes of some interest along the line ^i' inarch -- which likewise were precipitated by the Americans. On the 23d a scouting party Glover attacked a party of Hessians, killing sent out by Colonel burning the to2Sth, morning the by way"the of bar Plains White first racks and of went After his departure, GenVihnnv Post Road. eral Greene came over from Fort Washington, to that place all the materials and removed supplies which had been left behind, completed