History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 77 (part 2)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] General McDougall having only a small force, destroyed the remaining stores and withdrew. The British then occupied the village. A party of them, about two hundred strong, took possession of a height south of Van Cortlandt's. In the mean time Lieutenant-Colonel Willett, having reinforced Mc-Dougall with about eighty men, obtained permission to attack the enemy on the height. After the first collision the British fled in great precipitation, leav-ing three dead on the field, and the whole body, panic-stricken, betook themselves to their vessels and sailed down the river. Before they embarked, however, they gave it out as their intention to stop at Tarrytown on their way, and to destroy the American magazine of forage at Wright's Mills. On tin' enemy's departure, disappointed of their object, General McDougall resumed his former quar-