Instead he tral locality in the upper part of Westchester County. occupied had gton Washin until Sound the of shores the on loitered his adWhite Plains with a powerful body, and then lie -ranted versary time to fortify his now station; so that, when he finally did move forward to bring on the decisive engagement for which he was he had longing, he was in precisely the same relative situation as mbeen in before the position on Harlem Heights-- attacking anopen. left above country whole the with below, from camp d trenche as finally concenThe effective strength of Washington's army The trated at White Plains was in the neighborhood of 13,000. ed estimat ly general is it against brought Howe actual force which General -- greater ds thousan many not or number same the about at Knvphausen's entire command of not less than 8,000 having beenin The great advantage of the British troops left at New Kochelle. ood regard to quality, discipline, and equipment is too well underst hand, other the On here. nt stateme renewed by the reader to need of the Americans had a certain advantage from the circumstance ding comman a of means no by was , however which, ed, being intrench nature at the time of the appearance of the enemy before him. These intrenchments, says Dawson, - had been hastily constructed, without The stony soil prenced engineers. the superintendence of experie vented the ditch from being made of any troublesome depth or the Only The latter was not (raised. parapet of a troublesome height. where it was least needed-- probably because the construction of it elsewhere had been interfered with-- was there the slightest appearance of an abatis.*' The works had for their central feature a square fort of sods built across the main street or Post Road; from which westwardly over the south side of Purdy's the defenses extended Hill to a bend of the Bronx River, and eastwardly across the hills Directly across the Bronx t«» Horton's Pond (Saint Mary's Lake). from the termination of the western line of defenses-- that is, in the of < Jreenburgh-- rose an elevated territory of the present Town height called Chatterton's Hill, which was to be the scene of the entire impending battle.