The Council referred to agreed, unanimously, that, in case the enemy was really retreating towards New York, it would be proper, immediately to throw a body of troops, into New Jersey ; that those troops who were irom the States to the westward of the Hudson, should be thus detached, the others to be subject to " the movements of the enemy and "the circumstances of the American Army ;" and that three thousand men should be detailed to take post at Peekskill and the passes in the Highlands, for the defence of those posts, for erecting fortifications, etc.

18 General Howe to Lord George Germaine, " New-York, 30 November, "1776."

M General McDougal to Colonel DeWltl, "White-Plains, November 7, " 1776 ;" Memoirs of General Heath, 84.

16 General Howe to Lord George Germaine, "New-York, 30 November, "1776."

16 General Washington to General Greene, "Head-quarters, 8 November, "1776."

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of the line, which, it had so honorably occupied; and took up its line of march, towards Peekskill, where it was to be permanently posted, for the defense of the Highlands : ' and, on Sunday, the tenth of November, General Washington left the White Plains, to take command of those troops who had crossed the Hudson-river, and who, soon afterwards, were engaged in that disastrous retreat, through the Jerseys, and in that subsequent recovery of the greater part of that State, which so greatly distinguished him, as a commanding General, and which have been recorded, with such entire approbation, on the pages of history. 2 General Lee was left at the White Plains, with his own Division and those commanded by Generals Spencer and Sullivan, generally New York and New England troops, with orders to watch the movements of the enemy; to secure and carry, off the Stores; and, then, to follow the main body of the Army, into the Jerseys. 8 ,