Washington, at White Plains, feared an Point West the of on conditi ary the rlrghhamls, which, in the element eared an equally he but nce; resista for d prepare ill defenses, were In this uncertainty he proceeded as he expedition against Boston. waiting for Howe to unfold his while before year the done had troops at Peekskill and above, the rced He largely re-enfo projects s near West Point, meanbrigade two with Putnam and stationed ester County to a pose Westch from camp own his removing while from where he border, icut Connect the tion farther north on as the result should River, Hudson the to or Boston to move either proved to have Clinton require. But the new enterprise of Sir Henry Egg Harbor Little to ion expedit an sent He . purposes only local nt base importa an as ans Americ the by used ,N J ) which had been under men 5,000 threw it, cover to and, ons, operati for privateering usen knypha under 3,000 and Jersey New n Cornwallis into norther - The detachment on the east side of the into Westchester County. a predatory Hudson ( we quote from Irving's Life of Washington) made toward the ridge and disgraceful foray from their lines at Kingsb diswithout ants inhabit the ing Americans at White Plains, plunder ons and forage, but of the very crimination, not only of their provisi None were more efficient in this ravage clothing on their backs. Donop's Hessian yagers, than a party of about a hundred of Captain Ferry and thev were in full maraud between Tarrytown and Dobbs and Butler, Richard Colonel under y infantr of when attachment by surprise, of cavalrv under Major Henry Lee, came upon them and eighteen killed ten of them on the spot, captured a lieutenant had not the whole the privates, and would have taken or distroyed the cavalry of action the d impede country the extreme roughness of s or plunghillside up ing scrambl by escape to yagers and enabled the /' ravines ing into still It svas duriim the summer of 1778, and while Washington was m our to referred event tragical the that Plains, White at in camp