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

Bridge down King's and toreGeneral and the Knyphausen, Free Bridge. the redoubts, ami troops from New with a force of mercenary ground on the abandoned Rochello, occupied the evening of the 29th.

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twelve (among them a held officer) and capturing three, with a loss of Inil one man; and on the 24th ;i detachmenl from General Lee's division crossed the Bronx and al Ward's Tavern, near Tuckahoe, fell upon 250 Hessians, slew ten of them, and bore away two into durance. (The Hessians, it seems, were singularly marked Tor destruction by the wayside in this campaign, even eliminating Dawson's murderous pen.) The hitter performance provoked a slight retaliating blow, ;i raid being made upon General Lee's column which resulted in the capture of the general's wine and some other personal baggage, including thai of Captain Alexander I In mi I ton. This appears to have been the only aggressive ad of the enemy. The remarkable forbearance of the British general was duo, as he subsequently explained, to his settled policy "not wantonly to commit His Majesty's troops where the object was inadequate." He abhorred skirmishes, and he despised such a merely partial issue as the capture of ;i portion of Washington's forces or even the shattering of the whole -- for his cautious mind saw only the minimum advantage to be derived by disturbing the movement after its van |,;, <l passed him, and refused to believe thai Hie entire object of his campaign would follow, lie was looking for a grand finale, a pitched buttle with thousands engaged, to terminate in the rebel general's ible appearance before him and his glittering staff to deliver over his sword and surrender the hist bleeding remnant of his host.