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-

1 General Washington to Colonel Lachlan Mcintosh of Georgia, " Whitb- ( ' Plains, October 21, 1776 ; " Lieutenant colonel Tttghman to William Duer, "Head-quarters, Valentine's-Hjll, 22 Oct., 1776."

2 Colonel R. H. Harrison to William Duer, " Camp on Valentine's- " Hills, October 21, 1776 ; " the same to the Continental Congress, " Head- " quarters, Valentine's-Hill, October 21, 1776;" Memoirs of General Heath, 73, 74.