It will be remembered that, on Monday, the twentyfirst of October, the Right and Centre of the Royal Army were moved to a position, on the road leading to the White Plains, about two miles to the northward of New Rochelle ; and that Lieutenant-general Heister, with the Left of the Army, consisting of one Brigade of British and two Brigades of Hessian troops, moved forward and occupied the position which had been thus abandoned. 6 It will be remembered, also, that, on the same day, Lieutenant-colonel Rogers,, with the Corps of Loyalists known as "The Queen's " Rangers," was detached from the main body of the Army, and pushed forward to take possession of Mamaroneck,' where, on the following night, he and his command "were roughly handled," by a party of Americans who had been despatched from the White Plains, for that purpose ; 8 which led General Howe, on the following day, [Tuesday, October 22,] to move the Sixth Brigade of British troops, commanded by Brigadier-general Agnew, to sustain "that important post. 9 It will be remembered, also, that, on Sunday, the twentieth of October, the Royal Army was strengthened by the addition of a portion of the Sixteenth and the whole of the Seventeenth Regiments of Light Dragoons, the former commanded by Lieutenant-colonel Harcourt, an Officer of great merit; 10 and that, on Tuesday, the twenty-second of October, it was further strengthened by the arrival, at New Rochelle, of Lieutenant-general Knyphausen, with the Second Division of Hessians and the Regiment of Waldeckers. 11