1 Sauthier's Plan of the Operations of the King's Army.

s General Howe to Lord George Germaine, " New-York, 30 November, "1776;" [HaU's'l History of the Civil War m America, i., 205; Stedman's History of the American War, i., 212 ; Gordon's History of the American Revolution, ii., 339 ; Sauthier's Plan of the Operations of the King's Army ; Plan of the Country from Frog's Point to Croton River ; etc.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

shamefully abandoned by the Americans who were posted there, on the approach of the enemy ; and that, " not for want of numbers, but for want of a "good Officer to lead the men." 1

When the intelligence of the enemy's movements, on the twenty-first of October, was received at Headquarters, which had been removed to Valentine'shill, General Washington was absent, on a tour of inspection." Evidently aroused by the information which he had received, on the preceding evening, from Colonel Putnam, he had left, early in the morning of that day, to visit the posts on the left of the American line and at the White Plains ; and when the express arrived with the very important intelligence of the enemy's movements, it was immediately transmitted to him, by his Secretary, Colonel Harrison, 3 although he was evidently quite well informed of those movements, even of that towards Mamaroneck, 4 from other sources of intelligence.

While the General was at the White Plains, on that tour of inspection, [October 21, 1776,] he personally examined the Stores which had been accumulated at that place, and renewed his earnest entreaties 5 with the Commissary-general of Provisions to supply the posts in that vicinity, in time, with Flour and Beef, for present use ; to form other Magazines of Provisions, " in secure places, removed from the wa- " ter, in Connecticut and at such others as were men- " tioned in my last, and circumstances may direct." 6 Prom the same place, the General ordered the Officer in command, at Mamaroneck, to make the best stand he could, with the troops under his command, against the enemy ; and told him of his intention to order an attack on the enemy's flank ' -- how little the General thought that, at that very time, the Officer whom he was thus addressing had shown himself to be only a contemptible poltroon. 8 At the same time, he ordered Colonel Lachlan Mcintosh, who was then in Connecticut, with two Regiments of Massachusetts troops, preparing to make a movement against the enemy, on Long Island, to suspend that proposed ex-