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.

1 Memoir of Colonel Rufus Putnam, in Hildrcth's Biographical and Historical Memoirs of the Early Settlers of Ohio, 61-63.

2 Probably between the present villages of Tuckahoe and Scarsdale, near the line of the Harlem Bailroad.

quietly down, listened to the conversation of the assembled countrymen, whom he discovered to be Whigs. From these, Colonel Putnam ascertained that a large body of the Boyal Army was lying near New Eochelle, which was about eleven miles distant from the White Plains, with good roads and ah open, level country between the two places ; and that at the Plains, was a large quantity of American Stores, guarded by only about three hundred Militia. He ascertained, also, that a detachment of the enemy was posted near Mamaroneck, only seven miles distant from the White Plains ; while, on the other side, was the Hudson-river, on which were half a dozen armed vessels of the King's Fleet, within seven miles from the same place; and he understood, at once, that the principal Magazine of Provisions for the American Army, which General Washington had ordered to be brought to the White Plains, for the greater security of it, was enclosed, on three sides, by the King's forces, and was within easy striking distance from either of those three positions.