The Battle of Pell's Point (Or Pelham) October 18, Being the Story of a Stubborn Fight: With a Map, and Illustrations from Original Photographs and Family Portraits (Classic Reprint)

British Army the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Lancers it is stated that they were engaged in the battle of Pelham Moor. Yet though this encounter is thus thought worthy of mention side by side with Waterloo and others of world-renown, few of our own histories contain any details of it, and one of the most popular gives it only three lines, in which are two serious errors. Examination of all the authorities and personal familiarity with the scene and the topography of lower Westchester County, leads me to consider it one of th6 most important conflicts of the earlier part of the Revolution. The only author who gives it the rank which it deserves is one to whom 1am indebted, and whose services to American history are too well-known to need extended mention :the late Henry B. Dawson, of Morrisania, N. Y. But his interesting and valuable Westchester County during the Revolution (down to November, 1776) was published fifteen years ago, in a very small edition, and hence is not as widely known as it should be. In the preparation of my own story of the battle, 1have been fortunate in receiving valuable assistance from several gentlemen, now or formerly residents of the town of Pelham; among them Rev. C. W. Bolton, H. D. Carey, Esq. (of City I sland), Mr. M. G. Lathrop, now of White Haven, Pa., Rev. W. S. Coffey and Mr. H. S. Rapelye, of Mount Vernon. To my friends E. S. Bennett and Z. T.
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