New-York : 1867 ; Drake's Life and Correspondence of Henry Knox, Major-general m the Revolutionary Army; Jones's History of New York during the Revolutionary War, and de Lancey's Notes on that work ; Bancroft's History of the United States, both the original and the centenary editions ; Bolton's History of WestcheMer-county, both editioDB ; Tarbox's Life of Israel Putnam; Carrington's Battles of the American Revolution; and Ridpath's History of the United Slates.

Those works, bearing on the subject, in the German language, which are in our own library, were put away, and could not he reached without undue labor ; and we were not physically able to go elsewhere, to consult them. For those reasons, they have not been examined.

1 Vide pages 262, 263, 264, ante.

2 Vide pages 266-268, ante.

3 General Howe to Lord George Germaine, " New-York, 30 November, "1776 ; " Stedman's History of the American War, i., 215 ; [Hall's] History of the Civil War in America, i., 209 ; etc.

* Stedman's History of the American War, i., 215. 5 Memoirs of Major-general Heath, 78.

led by a detachment of about twenty Light Dragoons, capering and brandishing their sabres, who leaped the fence of a wheat-field, situated at the foot of the hill on which the Regiment commanded by Colonel Malcolm had been posted. 6 The horsemen evidently supposed the hill was unoccupied ; and, it is probable, they expected to turn the flank of the American lines, and to secure an easy victory ; but Lieutenant Fenno and his field-piece were also on " the South brow of " the hill ; " 7 and, when the horsemen approached, he gave them a shot which, " by striking in the midst " of them," killed one of them. 8 The troop was immediately " wheeled, short about, and galloped out of " the field as fast as they came in; rode behind a little " hill, in the road; and faced about ; " the other portions of the column, at the same time, as they successively came up, wheeling to the left, by platoons ; and, passing through a gateway or bars, directed their march, westward, to the place where the Left of the Army had been halted. 9 With that movement of the extreme Right of the Army, and with that of the Hessian and British troops, on the high grounds, on the western bank of the Bronx, on its extreme Left, already mentioned, the Royal Army closed the operations of the day.