[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] the attacking general, unless blindly indifferent to his reputation, should not have hesitated to pursue that course rather than suffer the campaign to come to a humiliating end. finding that Washington had retired. General Howe, apparently with some realizing sense of his previous delinquency, and despite the continuance of the storm and the wretched condition of the roads, followed him to the North Castle position on November 1 with a por-tion of his artillery, and began to cannonade the American left, which replied with vigor. Little resulted from this performance on either side bin powder burning. Washington had already taken the pre-caution of preventing any attempt of the enemy to cut off his re-treal north of the Croton Liver. As tin-reader doubtless knows, that stream, previously to the diversion of its waters for the uses of New York City, had a decidedly wide channel for a considerable distance from its mouth; and at the lime of the Revolution the only structure affording passage over it to the north was Line's Bridge, some live miles east of the Hudson River.1 There was a ferry at the mouth of the Croton, but of course it was essentially important to retain Line's Bridge.