come to their assistance. One lieutenant and six men
were wounded, of whom four afterwards died of their
wounds. This is the German account in Eelking's
book. I will now give that of General Washington's
aide-de-camp in his report to the President of Congress:
“On Wednesday there was also a smart skirmish
between a party of Colonel Hand's riflemen, about two
hundred and forty, and nearly the same number of
Hessian chasseurs, in which the latter were put to
rout. Our men buried ten of them on the field, and
took two prisoners, one badly wounded. We sustained
no other loss than having one lad wounded, supposed
mortally.”[1]
This is about as near as such reports
usually come to each other.
On the 28th of October, Sir William Howe found Washington's army advantageously posted behind the village of White Plains. It numbered somewhat more than thirteen thousand men, of whom about fifteen hundred occupied Chatterton Hill, on the extreme right of the American position, and were separated from the main body by the river Bronx. Sir William determined to attack this right wing. One English and two Hessian regiments, supported by the Hessian grenadiers, forded the Bronx and scaled the steep and rocky sides of the hill. The regiment Von Lossberg was obliged to charge through a burning wood, and to face the heaviest American fire. Its loss in killed and wounded was not far from fifty men. The result of
- ↑ Washington, vol. iv. p. 524. The MS. journal of the Grenadier Battalion von Minnigerode gives Ewald's loss at four killed, three wounded, and two missing. I have not found any mention of this skirmish in Ewald's “Belehrungen.”
