They moved off the hill in a great body, neither running, nor observing the b.'st order. The British ascended the hill very slowly, and when arrived at its summit, formed and dressed their line, without the least attempt to pursue the Amnricans. Tlie loss on the side of the Americans was inconsiderable. That of the British was not then known. The British army having got possession of this hill, it gave them a vast advantage of the American Hues, almost down to the centre."*

Botta, in his history of the American Revolution, says : " The loss of men in this action was great on the one part as well as on the other. "<' Among the principal actors in this scene, upon the American side,

a V*!u]e tlio i;,ia-n wore thm advauoing up the h;U, a shot struck one of the statuJard beart-r.s il'ii.i. W.irrL-u (!•.' L.\uc.>t, {then a boy ii(ri;oii vcars of age,) iii-t.intly seized the ciilorrt. and riHliinx' f'>rwarJ, was one of the fir^t to ;jani V.v.- siimiuit, where tie i>lant>il them ini)iegromi.l I'o- this act of tjravery he afterwura-i receiveil a cornet's comnildiioQ Irom Gemral liowo. -- .1 u'/.or.

b IliatU's .''i til. Ti"..

e Tiio rfin:Mfi . nT those sHiii in ttio contiict, were ir.rerred i:: a hollow oa the south.-west siile cf (haiteitoii l.i;:, uear abickory tree.

572 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

may be enumerated, Generals Washington, Clinton, McDoiigal, L; ■ Heath, Sterling, and Read, Colonels Haslet, Smallwood, Malcolm a.. Glover; Majors Hand, Lee and Lieut. Fenno. On the British si:,- Brigadier Generals Leslie, Knyphausen, Rahl, De Heister, and M..;- thews; Lord Percy, Count Dunop, Colonel Ralle, Colonel Ritzeina, an; Major Rogers, Szc, Szc.