i* It was that Brigade, commanded by the same Colonel, Rail, who was captured at Trenton, in the following December; and we have ascertained the Regiments of whom it was composed, from the despatch of General Howe to Lcrd George Germaine, dated "New-York, December " 29, 1776," announcing that disaster to the Royal Army, to the Home Government,

In the despatch of General Washington to the Congress, dated " Headquarters, Newtown, 27th December, 1776," the Regiment of Lossberg is called the Regiment of Landspatch. We have preferred to follow General Howe, as our authority, in this instance.

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hills of Greenburgh, * and were reported among the " Missing," which, in that Army, too often, afforded a resting-place for the name and the fame of a coward and poltroon. 2 In the instances now under consideration, many of these bashful New Englanders purged themselves of some portion of the reproach produced by their cowardice, by returning, as they found opportunities, in small parties.to the Camp, at the White Plains, 3 exemplifying the truth of the old couplet :

"He who fights and runs away,

" Will live to fight, another day ; "

while their Hessian pursuers, probably checked in their further progress by their discovery of the troops on Chatterton's-hill, of whom the reader will learn more, hereafter, occupied a position on the high ground, westward from the Harlem Railroad, between Chatterton's-hill and the present railroad-station, at Hartsdale. 4

An amusing incident connected with that disgraceful retreat of General Spencer's command, was related by Major Benjamin Tallmadge, then Brigade-major of General Wadsworth's Brigade and, himself, one of the fugitives ! -- subsequently better known in connection with the detention of Major Andre 1 . After having described the retreat of the detachment of Americans and the pursuit by the Brigade of Hessians, the rush of the former for the ford and the anxiety of the fugitives to pass the river, he said, " They," [the Americans,] " immediately entered the river and ascended "the hill; while I, being in the rear and mounted on "horseback, endeavored to hasten the last of our " troops, the Hessians being then within musket- " shot.