10 "The left of our General's Division was not to move; but the re- "maiuder of his Division and all the other Divisions of the Army " were to fall back and form," on that stationery pivot, (Memoirs of General Heath, 79 ; ) the whole occupying a new line, without having disturbed the relative positions of any of the Regiments or Divisions of whom the Army was composed.

11 Gordon's History of the American Revolution, ii., 343, 344 ; Marshall's Life of George Washington, ii., 506 ; General Howe to Lord George Germaine, " New-York, 30 November, 1776;" [Hall's] History of the ChvU War in America, i., 210 ; Stedman's History of the American War, i., 216 ; etc.

12 Hall and Stedman erronously supposed the new position was North of the Croton-river. General Howe, very accurately, stated it was "one "mile back from their entrenchments." Chief justice Marshall, as we have seen, erroneously supposed it was five miles from the White Plains. Hildreth, (History of the United States, iii., 154,) said it was two miles in the rear of the first line. Irving, (Life of George Washington, ii., 397,) said it was five miles distant. Lossing, (Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution, ii., 823,) said, uncertainly, itwas "toward the Croton River." General Knox, in a letter written to his brother, dated " Near Whits- " Plains, 32 miles from New-York, 1 Nov. 1776," said " the enemy's "possession of this hill obliged us to abandon some slight lines thrown "up on the White Plains. This we did, this; morning, [and retired to "some hills about half a mile in the rear."