Surely the little tree-fringed Bronx did not offer any serious obstruction : surely the entrenched Camps behind which the heavily laden column was slowly marching, and which were abandoned when the column reached ihein, those who had occupied them falling in and increasing the strength of the moving force, did not intimidate him : rather let it be supposed that General Howe's well-settled, wellsupported policy of exposing his men, in assaults on entrenchments, only when the objects to be attained by such assaults were adequate to the loss of men, in such assaults -- "not wantonly to commit His Majesty's troops, where the object was inadequate,'' was his own description of it -- controlled him, as it had done in Brooklyn, while the King's Army was on Long Island. It appears, however, that General Lee

1 How's DUiry, October 22 and 23, 1770.

2 Sparks's Writings of George^ Washington, iv., 524.

'The twenty-second of October afforded the only letter in his published Correspondence, between the fifteenth of October and the sixth of November ; and Doctor Sparks, who conducted his Writings through the Press, stated, in explanation, " the unsettled state of the Army, " for several days succeeding the date of this letter," [that of the sixth of November,] "allowed very little leisure to the Commander-in-chief "for writing."-- (Writings of George Washington, iv., 157, note.)

4 In the published Orderbj-books of the Army, there does not appear a single entry, not even of a Parole and Countersign, between the eighteenth and twenty-fifth of October.