Moreover, as rural battlefields are always named alter the most conspicuous and most familiarly known locality of their vicinage, it would have been a peculiar departure from such ethics not to dignify this very notable engagement with the name of tin1 flourishing and widely known village beside which it occurred. There exists no public memorial, either on Chatterton's Hill or in White Plains village, commemorative of the battle. Upon the approach of the centennial anniversary of the day in 1876, arrangements were made, under the auspices of the Westchester County Historical Society, for a public celebration on Chatterton's Hill, to include the laying of the corner-stone for a monument. This latter ceremony was duly performed, but as the weather was exceedingly inclement the public exercises were adjourned to the court house, where a tit ting address was made by the Hon. Clarkson N. Potter, at that time representative in congress from the district. Congress had previously donated three Revolutionary cannon as accessories to the proposed monument, and the plans for the memorial did not contemplate any elaborate or costly structure. Yet the project ended with the laying of the corner-stone and the speechifying. The futile attempt is a decidedly painful reminiscence for the people of Westchester County, and our readers will willingly spare us any further remark upon it than this passing notice of the fact.

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fort Washington's fall -- the delinquency of general lee TIE divided British army, with its right resting on the road from White Plains to Mamaroneck, and its left on the Bronx River and Ghatterton's Hill, remained completely inactive not only during the rest of the 28th of October, but throughout the period of its continuance before Washington's As we have seen, it was deemed inexpedient by General position. Howe to move on the White Plains intrenchments with his forces But it has never been satisfactorily explained why thus separated. that separation of his army need have been protracted after the taking of the hill, or why he might not have promptly reunited the severed parts and fought the intended battle on the same afternoon or the next morning under substantially the original conditions.