" Hessian Grenadiers," [those wlw had assaulted the left of the Americans,]

' " were ordered forward, upon the heights, within cannon-shot of the

" entrenchments, the Bronx, from its winding course, being still between

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

prepared his dinner, for the purpose of doing which he tore down and burned a barn which belonged to John Hunt, on property, on the western portion of the hill, which, in our younger days, belonged to his ' two sons, Thomas and Jacob Hunt. 1

The strength of the Americans, under General Spencer, who were engaged on the Plain ; who were alarmed at either the Hessians or the Light Dragoons ; and who fled, over the river and far away, among the hills of Greenburgh, was, as we have already stated, not far from twenty-five hundred effective Officers and Privates : 2 that of the Regiments who composed the force on the top of the hill, who defended the position, and who were really the heroes of the day, exclusive of the Company of Artillery, who rendered no effective service, was not far from seventeen hundred effect-

" them and the enemy's," [(fee American's,] "right flank; tha Second "Brigade of British," [those who had assaulted the fronts of the right and centre of the Americans,'] "formed in the rear of the Hessian Grena- "diers; and the two Brigades of Hessians, on the left of the Second " Brigade, with their left upon the road leading from Tarrytown to the "White Plains "--that is to say, the entire force, on the western bank of the Bronx, was moved northward, until its left was above that old road, still continued, which extends from the bridge, nearthe railroad-station, westward, over Chatterton's-hill.