On Colonel Glover and on his Brigade, therefore, during that eventful Friday, rested the great responsibility-- a greater responsibility than either the Colonel or his command had any knowledge of-- of being the only armed force which was in front of the Knyal Army, opposing the progress of the latter into the interior of Westchester-county ; and of being the only force, of any kind, which, on that day, fired a shot on the advancing column Of that Army-- how well that opposition to the enemy's advance was directed and how entirely successful it was, in that opposition, have been already told and need not be repeated. Not until the dusk of the evening, nor then, until after Colonel Glover and his exhausted command had fallen back, three miles, in the direction of Dobbs's-ferry, did the powerful ad-*

1 Memoirs of General Heathy 72.

2 Vide pages 232, 233, 239, ante.

vance of the Royal Army venture to cross the little valley over which it had been cannonaded, by the Americans, during a large portion of the day ; 8 and after its progress toward the mainland was thus resumed, it made no attempt to pursue the retreating Americans, contenting itself, on the contrary, with quietly moving eastward, toward New Rochelle, Where it also bivouaced. and rested from the anxieties and the dangers to which it had been exposed, 4 the main body of the Army, meanwhile, lying on its arms, at the place of debarkation, during the whole of that day and the following night, 5 if, indeed, it did not do so until the twenty-first of October. 6