148 The Story of The Bronx 



until the twentieth, when he advanced to the heights above 

 New Rochelle, where, two days later, he was joined by the 

 second division of the Germans, consisting of eight thousand 

 men under General Knyphausen, who had landed at New 

 York on the eighteenth and been transported in boats to 

 Davenport's Neck in New Rochelle. 



Washington in general orders, dated Headquarters, Harlem 

 Heights, Oct. 21, 1776, complimented Colonel Glover and his 

 command. 



"At the same time, he hopes that every part of the Army 

 will do their duty with equal duty [sic] and zeal when- 

 ever called upon; and that neither dangers, difficulties, nor 

 hardships will discourage soldiers engaged in the cause of 

 Liberty, and contending for all that freemen hold dear and 

 valuable." 



On October twentieth, Washington learned through the 

 investigations of an engineer officer, Colonel Rufus Putnam, of 

 the presence of the British at New Rochelle and of the danger 

 to the stores at White Plains. He personally visited the 

 latter place on the twenty-first, inspected the ground, selected 

 the new positions of the troops, and returned to the neighbor- 

 hood of Kingsbridge, where the movements preparatory to 

 retreat were already in progress. The retreat began the same 

 day by way of Valentine's Hill and the roads to the westward 

 of the Bronx River, the main route being over what is now 

 called the "pipe line," via Tuckahoe. With the progress of 

 this masterly withdrawal of the whole army in the face of a 

 superior enemy, without loss to the retiring army in either 

 men or stores, it is without our province to speak. It showed 

 the military genius of the Commander-in-chief to be of the 

 first class. The Battle of White Plains occurred on the 



