All these, among other not much lessimportant results, although they were probably hidden from General Washington, when he devised and ordered the movement, were, unquestionably, among the results, in America, of that " inexplicable " occupation of Chatterton's-hill, on the morning of the twenty-eighth of October, 1776 : with the results, in Europe, of that occupation, we have nothing to do, in this place. 1

1 In our preparation of this description of the engagement on Chatterton's-hill, generally called " The Battle or White-Plains," we have examined and used The Diary of David How ; the Letter from tlte White Plains, dated October 28, 1776, published in The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1770, Philadelphia, Wednesday, November 6, 1776 ; the Letter from the While-Plaint, dated October 28, 1776, at two o'clock, P.M., published in

As we have elsewhere stated, the advancing columns of the Boyal Army had been formed, in line, with the Bight resting on the road leading from the White Plains to Mamaroneck, and the Left resting on the

The Pennsylvania Evening Poet, Vol. II., No. 278, Philadelphia, Thursday, October 31, 1776, and in The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1770, Philadelphia, November 6, 1776 ; the Tetter of Colotiel Robert H. Uarrimn to the President of the Congiess, dated "White-Plains, October 29, 1776 ; " the Letter to a Gentleman in Annapolis, dated "White-Plains, October ■' 2'J, 1776," published in The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1771, Philadelphia, Wednesday, November la, 1776 ; the Letter from the Camp, dated White-Plains, October 29, 1776, published in The Freeman' s Journal, or yew-Hampshire Gazette, Vol. I., No. 26, Portsmouth, Tuesday, November 10, 1776 ; General Order of the Army, in the case of Colonel Webb, " Head-quarters, White-Plains, October 29,1776;" Lieutenant colonel TUghman's Utter to William Doer, dated " Head-quarters, White- " Plains, October 29, 1776; " the same to his father, dated "White- " Plains, October 31, 1776;" the Letter from Stamford, dated October 30, 1776, published in The Freeman's Journal, or New-Hampshire Gazette, Vol.