Among those from whom we have thus dissented, are the despatch of General Howe to Lord George Germaine, "New-York, "30 November, 1776 ; " Annual Register for 177 6: History of Europe, *177,; History of the War in America, Dublin: 1779, i., 194 ; [Hall's] History of ih: Givll War in America, i., 207 ; Gordon's History of the American Revolution, ii., 339; Stedman's History of the American War, i., 212; Marshall's Llfeof George Washington, ii., 500' ; Andrews's History of the War, ii., 244; Murray's Impartial History of tlie War in America, ii., 177 ; Eamsay's History of the American Revolution, i.,309; Morse's Annals of the American Revolution, 263 ; Sparks's Life of George Washington, 195; Irving's Life of George Washington, ii., 384, 385 ; Hamilton's History of the Republic, i., 130; Lossing's Pictorial Field-book of the American Revolution, ii., 821 ; Carrington's Battles of the American Revolution, 236, etc.; but we have preferred the testimony of Division Orders for the movement of the troops, the narrative of the movement which was written by the Major-general commanding the Division, the official Maps of the movement drawn by both the American and the Royal Engineers, and our own well-settled convictions of the improbability that the main Army had been employed in throwing up entrenchments or that its laborious retreat to the Plains was made more laborious by continuous halts for the purpose of throwing up earthworks, for any purpose. When the retreat was originally determined on, the necessity for a prompt and immediate occupation of the new-selected position was too evident to admit of any Buch halts, for any such' purposes .; and, in the great scarcity of Teams for the removal of the Stores and Baggage and Artillery, which required the men to take the places of beasts of burden, in dragging and carrying what needed to be transported, the main body of the Army needed no additional labor, nor is it in the slightest degree probable that any such additional labor was really imposed on it.