But the action was, also, not confined to the assaults on nor to the defences of the right and center of the Americans, on the top of that notable hill.- The four Eegiments composing the Brigade commanded by General Leslie, were soon followed, "with the " greatest alacrity and in the best order," through the river, at the ford, and up the Mill-lane, and up the eastern face of the hill, by the Chasseurs and by three, if not by, four, Regiments of Hessian Grenadiers, composing the Brigade commanded by Colonel Donop. 1 In front of these, on the summit of the hill, were the skeleton First New York Regiment, formerly commanded by General McDougal, but then evidently without Field-officers and commanded by one of its Captains ; and the Regiment of Connecticut troops commanded by Colonel Charles Webb, very little stronger in effective men, than the other; and, very probably, one of the two field-pieces which constituted the armament of the Company of New-York Artillery of whom Alexander Hamilton was the official commander -- the other of the two pieces, as the reader will remember, was posted on the extreme right of the line, under the command of Colonel Haslet. 2 All these numbered, in the aggregate, not many, if any, more than four hundred fighting Officers and Privates ; 3 and, with their only piece of artillery dismounted, evidently before the assailants commenced to ascend the hill,* and without any support or defensive works, it is scarcely probable that much was expected from so feeble a body, in the face of so heavy a body of assailants. But the records indicate that all those of the two feeble Regiments who were present on the field, performed their duty satisfactorily to the Commander-in-chief; 5 and, we are told that, when an effort was made by the assailants to turn the left of the line, a detachment from Colonel Webb's Regiment, commanded by Captain William Hull, defeated the attempt, with spirit and promptitude, although he was opposed by more than double the number of his own command. 6