The loss sustained by the Americans was not as great as was, at first, supposed 2 -- the return to the Camp of the greater number of the fugitive New Engenders reduced the supposed losses from " between " four or five hundred in killed, wounded, and miss- " ing," which was the first estimate, to twenty-two killed, twenty-four wounded, and one missing, in the detachment commanded by General Spencer;* and, exclusive of the losses sustained by the Regiments commanded, respectively, by Colonels Haslet and Brooks, of which no Returns have been found, the loss of those who were on the top of the hill and who fought the battle, was two Captains, four Sergeants, one Corporal, and eighteen Privates, killed ; one Colonel, three Lieutenants, one Ensign, four Sergeants, and forty-three Privates, wounded; and sixteen Priber of those who remained, after the Militia had given way, to six hundred men; Chief-justice Marshall, (History of George Washington, ii., 502,) and Doctor Sparks, (Life of General Washington, 196,) each with the papers of General Washington before him, stated the force under General McDougal was "about sixteen hundred " men.

1 General Howe was silent concerning the numerical strength of the force which he had thus employed ; and none of the British authorities were any more communicative. Stedman, however, (History of the American War, i., 215,) clearly intimated that the force which was required to take and occupy Chatterton's-hill, when diverted for that purpose, bo greatly weakened the Boyal Army, then on the White Plains, that "it was obvious that the latter could no longer expediently " attempt anything against the enemy's " {the Americans'] " main "body."