These Rangers were said, by the biographer of their distinguished Commandant, of a later period, to have been "disciplined, not for parade, but "for active service. They were never to march in slow time ; were directed "to fire with precision and steadiness ; to wield the bayonet with force "and effect; to disperse and rally with rapidity. In short, in the in- " structions for the management of the Corps, its commander seems to

"have anticipated the more modern tactics of the French Army."

(Memoir of Lieutenant colonel Srnicoe, -- Simcoe's Journal of the Operations of the Queen's Hangers, viii.)

to Mamaroneck, which they had occupied early in the morning of that day."

It will be remembered, also, that while General Washington was at the White Plains, on the twentyfirst of October, he had received information of that occupation of Mamaroneck ; and that he had deterined to make an attack on the Queen's Rangers who were posted there. 9 In accordance with that determination and with Orders which were undoubtedly issued by General Washington, 10 General Lord Stirling, who had reached the White Plains, with his command, during the morning of that day, detached Major Green, with one hundred and fifty men from the First and Third Virginia Regiments, and Colonel John Haslet, with six hundred men from his own -- the Delaware -- and other Regiments, with orders to fall on the Rangers, during the coming night. The movement was made with good judgment and ability; the Rangers were entirely surprised, through the carelessness of their sentries ; and, as was stated by an Officer in the Royal Army, 11 they were " very roughly " handled." In consequence of the bad conduct of the guides whom Colonel Haslet had employed, 12 however, the success was not as complete as it probably would have been, had the guides done their duty properly.