London : 1786, ii., 243-245) ; Soules, in his Huttoire' dea Troublea de I' Amerique Angluiae, (Edit. Paris : 1787, i., 342-345) ; Chas and Lebrun, in their Hiatoire politique et philosopkique de la Revolution de V Amirique Septentrionale, (Edit. Paris : An ix., 183) ; Colonel Humphreys, in his Essay on the Life of Major-general Israel Putnam, (Edit. Boston : 1818, 126, 127) ; Pitkin, in his Political and Civil History of the United States, (Ed. New Haven: 1828, i., 370) ; Sparks, in his Life of George Washington, (Edit. Boston : 1842, 194) ; Lossing, in his Seventeen hundred and seventysix, (Edit. New York: 1847, 2u7) ; Hildreth, in his History of the United States of America, (First Series, ill., 154) ; Hamilton, in his History of the Republic of Oie United States of America, (i., 129, 13U)-- where the enemy is made to force himself over the causeway leading from Throgg's-neck to the village of Westchester ; Greene, in The Life of Nathanael Greene, (Edit. New York : 1867, i., 236-238) ; Ridpath, in his Popular History of the United States of America, (Edit. New York: 1880, 313) ; although all of them made mention ot the movement of the Koyal . Army from Throgg's-neck, made no mention whatever, of this spirited and important skirmish.

Disregarding those who made no mention of Colonel Glover and his brave command, the reader will find in the character and nnmber of those who did recognize and describe the achievements of those brave men, on that eighteenth of October, sufficient evidence of the great importance which those achievements possessed and the great influence which they secured, both in America and in Europe, both of which are our sufficient wan-ant for devoting both labor and space, in our presentation of them to our readers, in as complete and as accurate a form as possible.