6 '"On the 18th, our army re- embarking, proceeded along the coast ** about six miles further, in their boats, and then re landed at Pell's " Point, and lay on our arms that night.! 1 ([Hall's] History of the Civil War in America, i., 206.)

fl We are not insensible of the tact that General Howe* in hiB despatch to Lord George Germaine, dated "New-York, 30 November, 1776," said "the mjiin body advanced, immediately, and laid, that nighti" [Friday, October 18,] "upon their arms, with the Left upon a creel? "opposite to East Chester and the Bight near New Rochelle;" and that Sauthier's Plan of the Operations of the King's Army confirmed the statement. But General . Washington's Manuscript Plan of ' ,$he Country took no notice of any such occupation, of the mainland., as was thus stated, previously to the .twenty-first; Captain Hall, who was in the Royal Army, made no mention whatever of any movement of that Army, during the .intervening peiiod, except of that of the advance, who, encountered General Glover, (History of the Civil War in America, i., 205 ;) and Stedman, who is said to have been inspired by General Sir Henry Clinton, in his History of the American War, (i., 212,) was equally silent, on that subject. Colonel Harrison's letter to William Duer, "Cam,p on Valentin e's-H ills, October 21, 1776 "-- " Since his " Excellency's letter of yesterday, nothing of importance has ti>nBpired, "unless the marching of the enemy, to-day, from Eastchester towards " New Rochelle, in considered in that .light "--General George Clinton's Information relating to the Enemy, dated "October. 21, 177.6," in, which the enemy was Baid to "now lay from where they first landed, extended, "about one mile East of New Rochelle;" and General Washington's despatch to the Continental Congress, dated '" Head-quarters, White- " Plains, 25 October, 1776," all clearly indicated that such a movement of the main body of the King!s Army was not made, on the eighteenth ; and nobody has pretended that Colonel Gloyer confronted the entire Royal Army and held it in check, during the whole of the day, as he must have done, had that Army moved from Pell's-neck, on that day.