As the Delaware Regiment commanded by Colonel Haslet, was of the Brigade commanded by General Lord Stirling, and was ordered by General Washington "to take possession of the hill and the command of " the Militia Regiment there posted ; which was done," of which there has been no question ; and since the Brigade which was commanded by Oeneral McDougal subsequently moved up the same hill, which no one has ever pretended to deny, it is not evident why Colonel Carrington, {Battles of the American Revolution, 240,) without the slightest authority to sustain him, made a special attempt to belittle Colonel Haslet, individually, and as an Officer-- he could not belittle his doings nor those of his command, on that field-- because, in his Report of the action, to General Rodney-- the only Report from an actual participant in the affair, which has come down to us -- he described, in detail, his own and his gallant Regiment's portions of the doings on that historically important occasion.

3 " Colonel Rail . . . took possession of it, with great alacrity, to " the approbation of Lieutenant-general Heister, who was acquainted with " this movement by Sir William Erskine," the Quartermaster-general of the British Army.-- (General Howe to Lord George Germaine, ' ' New-York, " 30 November, 1776.")

It will be seen, from that paragraph, that the action of Colonel Rail, in thus occupying a position on the right flank of the Americans who were occupying Chatterton's-hill, received the favorable notices of both the British and the German Generals, commanding : we shall see, hereafter, how important that action was, in the subsequent engagement.