Brooks to the President of the Court Murtitd for the tr'uil of General Hull,' "Boston, February i, 1814." 7 "The gaining of this important post took up a considerable time, ' "which was prolonged by the enemy's still supporting a broken and " scattered engagement, in defence of the adjoining walls and hedges." [fences/]-- (The Annual Register for 1776, History of Europe, *178.)

The History of the War in America, Edit. Dublin, 1779, (i., 195 ;) Gordon's History of the American Revolution, (ii., 341 ;) and others, also, bear testimony to the gallantry of the American troops.

. . "our Troops made as good a Stand as could be expected and "did not quit the Ground, till they came to push their Bayonets." -- Lieutenant-colonel TUghman to his Father, " White- Plains, 31st October, • "1776."

s Letter to a Gentlemen in Annapolis, dated " White-Plains, October 29, , "1770," published in The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1771, Philadel- ; phia, Wednesday, November 13, 1776.

9 Our own knowledge of the ground and its approaches enabled uh to make the statement which appears in the text ; and, by a reference to A Plan of the Country from Frog^s Point to Croton River, the reader may see the evidence of the accuracy of that statement.

10 Letter from the White Plains, dated October 28, 1776, at two o'clock, : P.M., published in The Pennsylvania Evening Post, Vol. II., No. 278, ' Philadelphia, Thursday, October 31, 1776, and in The Pennsylvania i Journal, No. 1770, Philadelphia, Wednesday, November 6, 1776.