Probably misled by the errors referred to, in the official Map, the beautiful Map of the same Military Operations, which illustrates Stedman's History of the American War. has repeated the mistakes, in all their ugliness ; and the first edition of Lossing's Field-book of the Revolution perpetuated the unwelcome errors.

caution was necessary. 1 Besides that caution, in the Commander-in-chief, there was a great scarcity of the means for transporting the Stores and Baggage to another and distant position ; a and, with commenda-

1 Colonel KarrUon to General Heath, "Head-quarters, October 12, " 1776 ; " Colonel Grayson to the same, " Hkad-quartersi, October 13, "1776;" the same to Governor Trumbull, "Head-quarters, Harlem " Heights, October 15, 1776;" etc.

On the morning of the eighteenth of October, while the enemy was seen in motion to the eastward of Throgg's neck, when that fact was communicated to General Washington, by General Heath, 'the latter was ordered to return to hiscommand, whichhad been posted with its right at Valentine's and its left at Fort Independence, and to have it " formed, " ready for action, immediately, and to take such a position as might ap- " pear best calculated to oppose the enemy, should they attempt to land "another body of troops on Morrisania, which he thought not improba- " ble ; " and General Heath " immediately obeyed the Order." (Memoirs of General Heath, 72.)

2 That scarcity « ill be evident to the reader of General Orders of the seventeenth of October, in which "some Regiments " are ordered (t to " move towards them," [the enemy,'] in which Orders were also included for the government of those Regiments, in the tiansportation of their Tents and Baggage.