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.

See, also, Quartermaster-general Miglinto William Duer, "Mount Wash- " ington, October 20, 1776."

Gordon, when describing the movement from Harlem Heights, said, " The movement was attended with much difficulty, for want of Wag- " gone and Artillery horses. When a part was forwarded, the other was "fetched on. This was the general way of removing the Camp-equip- " page and other appendages of the Army. The few Teams which were "at hand, were in no wise equal to the service ; and their deficiency "could be made up only by the bodily labor of the men." (History oftlie American Revolution, ii., 339, 340.)