[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Major Ross to conduct the corps to the heights, advanced to the road, and arrived without being perceived, within ten yards 42 332 HUDSON RIVER INDIANS. of the Indians. They had been intent on the attack on Eme-rick's corps and the Legion; they now gave a yell and fired upon the grenadier company, wounding four of them, and Lieut. Col. Simcoe. They were driven from the fences; and Lieut. Col. Tarleton, with the cavalry, got among them, and pursued them rapidly down Cortlandt's ridge. That active officer had a nar row escape; in striking at one of the fugitives, he lost his balance and fell from his horse; luckily the Indian had no bayo net, and his musket had been discharged. Lieut. Col. Simcoe joined the battalion and seized the heights. A captain of the rebel light infantry and a few of his men were taken; but a body of them, under Major Stewart, who afterwards was dis tinguished at Stony Point, left the Indians and fled. Though the ambuscade, its greater part, failed, it was of consequence. Near forty of the Indians were killed or desperately wounded; among others NIMHAM,* a chieftain who had been to England, and his son; and it was reported to have stopped a large number of them, who were excellent marksmen, from joining General Washington's army. The Indian doctor was taken •, and he said that when NIMHAM saw the grenadiers close in his rear, he called out to his people to fly, * that he himself was old and would die there.' He wounded Lieut. Col.