4 Colonel Robert H. Harrison to the President of the Congress, " White- " Plains, 29 Octobor, 1776."

6 Speech of General Howe before a Committee of the House of Commons, April 29, 1779-- Almon's Parliamentary Register, Fifth Session, Fourteenth Parliament, xii., 324; Narrative of Lieutenant-general Sir William Howe, 6.

6 General Howe to Lord George Germaine, "New-Toek, 30th Novem- "ber, 1776 ;" Sauthier's Plan of the Operations, etc. ; Gordon's History of the American Revolution, ii., 340 ; etc.

Stedman stated, (History of Om AmerioaM War, i., 214,) that "the " Right wing of the Biitish did not extend beyond the center of the " American Army," which is in harmony with what General Howe had stated concerning the distance of his Right from the American lineshe referred to the center, without having made the slightest allusion to the left, where General Heath was posted. Stedman continued: "That "part of the enemy's position," [the American center,] "did not seem to "be considered : all the attention of the British Commander being fixed " on another part of the field "--as we have already seen, " an assault " upon the American right, which was opposed to the Hessian troops, " was intended ;" and the British troops were to have been spared, for other services, elsewhere.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

The force, on the summit of Chatterton's-hill, which had thus, insensibly, arrested the progress of the Royal Army, in its movement against the Eight and Center of the American lines, was, of course, that of whom we have already made mention -- the Regiments commanded, respectively, by Colonels Brooks and Haslet, the Brigade commanded by General McDougal not having reached the hill ; and against that small force, the Hessian Artillery, from the Plain, on the opposite side of the Bronx, not far from the present railroad-station, at the White Plains, opened a vigorous fire, 1 with no other effect, however, than the wounding of one of the Militia, which so greatly alarmed his comrades that the entire Regiment " broke, and fled, and were not rallied, without much " difficulty.'" 2 Soon after the cannonade was commenced, General McDougal and his command reached the hill-top ;. and the command of the entire force devolved on and was assumed by that very inexperienced Officer.