The light horse leaped the fence of a wheat field at the foot of the hill on which Colonel Malcolm's regiment was posted, of which the light horse were not aware until a shot from Lieutenant Fenno's field-piece gave them notice by striking in the midst of them, and a horseman pitching from his horse. They behindbuta came in, as they as fastcame out .of. .theThefield 'short then the road, up rode no further column faced about. and galloped roadabout, hill on the little wheeled gateway, or bar a through passing and, up, came they as wheeled to the left by platoons directed their heads towards the troops on Chatterton's Hill, now engaged.

This pitiful demonstration was the sole thing undertaken by the enemy in the White Plains quarter. But while there was no battle at White Plains, the whole engagement having transpired on Chatterton's Hill in the Town of Greenburgh, the name of the battle of White Plains, by which alone the event is known in general histories, is a strictly appropriate one; and indeed it would have been regrettable if this exceedingly important conflict-- one of the most important and representative of the struggle for independence-- had received the merely local designation of the isolated, incidental, accidentally chosen, ami unpopulated summit where it was fought. The strategic situation was at White Plains exclusively, which was the place deliberately selected by Washington days in advance for his final stand, and fully accepted by Howe as the battle-ground: and up to the moment that Howe arrived in sight of our lines the attention given to Chatterton's Hill bv the American commander, even as a locality of incidental conse-