Taking counsel of his experience, General Howe ordered Lieutenant-general Heister, with the Left of the Army, to join in the movement ; and, on Thursday, the twenty-fourth, and on Friday, the twenty-fifth, of October, the main body of the Royal Army was moved from the positions on which it had rested, for several days, towards Scarsdale. 12 It moved in two

* Reed's Life of Joseph Reed, i., 239-242 ; Gordon's History of the American Revolution, ii., 304, 317, 324, 331, 333-335 ; Marshall's Life of George Washington, ii,, 473,474 ; etc.

6 General Orders, " New- York August 1,1776;" Gordon's History of the American Revolution, ii., 304; etc.

6 Vide page 249, ante.

See, also, General Howe to Lord George Germaine, " New- York, 30th "November, 1776;" [Hall'sl History of the Civil War in America, i., 205 ; etc.

7 Vide page 249, ante.

« Vide pages 252, 253, ante. 9 Vide page 253, ante. 1( > Vide page 249, ante.

11 Vide p»ge 253, ante.

12 Information was received, at the White Plains, as early as two o'clock on Thursday afternoon, [Ocfo&er 24,] that the Royal Army had struck its tents, on its position near New Rochelle, "early this morning ;" and that it was, then, "advancing from that to this place, along the common " road." -- (General George Clinton to John McKesson, Secretory to the New- York Convention, " White-Plains, October 24, 2 P. M., 1776.")

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columns, with great caution ; l and, on the twenty-fifth of October, when the heads of the columns reached Scarsdale, after their two days' march, they were halted; and the Army encamped in a line which was parallel with the Bronx-river and with the line of march, on the opposite side of that little stream, on which General Lee, with his heavily laden column; was transporting the Baggage and Stores of the American Army, to the White Plains 2 -- in many places, the two were not more than a mile distant from each other ; and, in one place, if not in others, the toiling Americans were directly within sight of their powerful enemy.