SSauthier's Plan of the Operations of the King's Army, etc.

General Heath, an eye-witness, said, that, after they had " forded the "river " they "marched along, under the cover of the hill, until they " had gained sufficient ground to the left of the Americans, when, by "facing to the left," etc.-- (Memoirs, 78.)

tGeneral Howe to Lord George Germaine, "New-Yobk, 30 November, " 1776 ;" The Annual Register for 1776, History of Europe, 178* : etc.

General Heath, who witnessed the movement, said that, "by facing "to the left, their column became a line, parallel with the Americans, " when they briskly ascended the hill. -- {Memoirs, 78.)

s Memoirs of General Heath, 78, 79.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

were posted, as we have already stated, the Regiment of Massachusetts Militia commanded by Colonel Brooks, sheltered behind a stone wall and supported by theremains of the Maryland Regiment commanded by Colonel Smallwood, 1 and, probably, by the Third Regiment of New Yorkers commanded by Colonel Ritzema ; 2 and, against these, the two assaulting parties simultaneously directed their overwhelming power. There was no Artillery to hurl destruction on either of the assailants : since, by that time, the Delaware Regiment, immediately on their left, was confronted by the Fifth and Forty-ninth Regiments, who had also crossed the river and were climbing the hill-side, "zealous to distinguish themselves," there was no support for the hard-pressed " Maccaronis " and their New York comrades : and nothing else than their own resolute wills and their strong arms and their not generally trusty and always ill-supplied muskets were there, to support those less than eleven hundred Officers and Privates in their approaching struggle with two well-disciplined, well-armed, well-commanded British Regiments, besides the Hessian forlorn-hope, on their front, and three equally well-disciplined, well-armed, and well-commanded Hessian Regiments, on their right flank.