At length compelled to retreat, it was i'.ow in good order over tlie bridge at the foot of the hill, under cover of some n :;irnent3 detached by Washington from his main army. The militia and a few of tiie regulars were dispersed among the hills of Greenburgh, but soou returned 10 Head Quarters. The British forces engaged in that attack, were the flower of Ihe army, consisting of the second brigade of British, the 5th, i2Sth and 49th regiments, Kahl's battalion, the Hessian Grenadiers, under Duuop, and a party of Light Dragoons, all commanded by General Leslie.

"That General Washington did make a successful stand at this place, has ever excited the wonder of military men. His troops were greatly- inferior ia numbers and'discipline, and composed in part of militia and raw recruits. After the battle, the enemy for several days attempted to gain Washington's rear, tried to alarm him and induce him to retreat or fight by threatening his flanks. At several times they formed a scmi-circlc about him. On the night of the 31st of October, Washington evacuated his camp at White Plains^ and established Ids new position in the hills of Northcastle, about one nule in the rear of his former encampment, when the British appear to have relinquished all further olTensive operations. At the advance of the British army to White Plains, the Whig families were seen hurrying, unprotected before them, with thin clothing and a scanty supply of provisions, to seek shelter for the coming winter, they knew not where. Desolation and famine marked the fair region over which the two armies passed. The English army finding all attempts to circumvent General Washington hopeless, broke up their camp at "Wliite Plains, on the 5th of November, and retired to Dobb's Ferry, and from thence to King's Bridge, where thny encamped on the 13th of that month.