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Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution

Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886. 492 words

London : 1791, i , 308, 3U9,) gave the personal command to General Lee, 'without alluding to Colonel Glover ; Mrs. Warren, in her Rise and Progress of the American Revolution, (i., 327,) grouped all the operations of the Annies, while en route to the White Plains, without making special mention of either ; Adolphus, in his History of England, (Second edition, ii., 380,) made honorable mention of Colonel Glover and of the engagement ; Sergeant Lamb, of the Royal Welsh Fusileers, in his Journal of Occurrences during the late American War, {Edit. Dublin : 1809; 127,) made honorable mention of it, giving the personal command to General Lee ; Paul Allen, in his History of the American Revolution, (i., 511, 512,) also gave the command to General Lee, requiring, however, the " whole force of the " British, in solid columns," to overcome the handful of Americans ; Morse, iu his Annals of the American Revolution, (Edit. Hartford : 1824, 262,) mentioned it, incidentally, giving the personal command to General Lee ; Kamsay, in his Life of George Washington, (Sixth edition, 46,) did no more than to casually allude to the entire series of affaiis, without particularly mentioning either of them ; Dunlap, in his History of New York, (ii., 80,) did the same, honorably mentioning all, without selecting either, for special praise ; Lossing, in his Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution, (original edition, ii., 820,) found room for no more than two lines of description of this gallant affair, which was a part of his subject : although he had devoted eight pages to Christopher Columbus and fourteen to Sir "Walter Raleigh, Captain John Smith, and Pocahontas, which, certainly, had no connection with that eubject, the American Revolution ; and, in those two lines, hb committed a singularly important error ; Irving, in his Life of George Washington, (Edit. 1856, ii., 385, 386,) gave an excellent little notice of it ; Bancroft, in his History of the United States, (original edition, ix., 177, and in thesame, centenary edition, v., 441,) while he had been singularly profuse in what had no bearing whatever on the history of the United States, dismissed the subject in less than four lines ; Dawson, in his Baffle* of the United States, (i., 177,) made only an incidental allusion to it, instead of appropriating a Chapter of his work to that special subject, as he should have done; Colonel Carrington, in his Battles of the American Revhhdion, (235,) made honorable mention of the affair ; the local historian, Bolton, in his History of Wtstchestercoivnty, (original edition; i., 153, and in the same work, second edition, i., 245,) probably alluded to this engagement, when in each instance, he devoted two lines and a half to the subject, in the course of which, however, in each instance, the reader was gravely informed that the Royal Army was, at that time, "under Lord Howe," the Admiral commanding the Fleet.