General Howe, deciding it will be better to retreat and land somewhere else, makes camp on Throgs Neck and remain here for six days while supplies and reinforcements, including seven thousand Hessian soldiers under the command of General Wilhelm von Knyphausen, are brought up from New York.

Howe embarks his army again just after midnight on October 18, and decide to land at Pell's Point near the town of Pelham, a few miles to the north.

After hearing of the landing on Throgs Neck, Washington had known he risks entrapment on Manhattan.

He had made the decision to move his army to White Plains, where he believes they will be safe.

By October 17, the Continental Army was on its way to White Plains, leaving behind two thousand men to garrison Fort Washington.

At dawn, the British begin to land on the shore, Clinton's advance guard of four thousand British light infantry and Hessian jägers landing first.

Inland, opposing them, is a brigade of some seven hundred and fifty men under the command of John Glover, commander of the 14th Continental Regiment.

Composed almost entirely of Massachusetts fishermen, this regiment has become known as the "amphibious regiment" for their vital nautical skills.

Glover is atop a hill with a telescope when he notices the British ships.

Glover sends an officer, Major William Lee, to report to Charles Lee, Washington's second in command, and ask for orders.

However, Lee doe not give any orders, and in the absence of orders Glover chooses to attack.

Glover turns out his brigade, which consists of the 14th, 13th, 3rd and the 26th Continental Regiments.

Glover leaves the 1one hundred fifty men  of the 14th Continentals behind in reserve.

He has not closed half the distance when he runs into approximately thirty skirmishers.

Glover orders a Captain and his forty-man company forward as an advance guard to hold the British in check, while Glover organized the rest of the force.

Glover prepares an ambush by placing the main body in staggered positions behind the stone walls that lined either side of the laneway leading from the beachhead to the interior.

Glover instructs each of the regiments to hold their position as long as they could and then to fall back to a position in the rear, while the next unit took up the fighting.

Glover then rides up to take command of the advance guard.

The advance guard and the British begin to engage each other, both sides taking casualties.

After a little while the British are reinforced, and Glover orders a retreat, which is done without confusion.

The British troops begin to advance at the retreating Americans.

However, the two hundred troops of the 13th Continentals that Glover has stationed behind the stone wall stand up and fire at the British when there  are only thirty yards yards away.

The ambush works, and the column of British troops takes heavy losses and falls back to the main body of the invading army.

The British wait half an hour before attacking again.

This time when they attack, they attack with all four thousand men and seven cannon.

The British bombard the American position behind the stone wall as their infantry advances.

The cannon fire is ineffective, and when the British are fifty yards away the Americans fire a volley that stops the British infantry.

The British return fire, and musket and rifle fire ensue for twenty minutes, the British supported by cannon, at which point the lead American regiment falls back under cover of the next reserve regiment.

The 3rd Continental Regiment is stationed behind the stone wall on the opposite side of the road.

The British attacks the position of the 3rd Continentals, and an engagement ensues.

Both sides keep up constant fire, the Americans breaking the British lines several times.

However, after seventeen volleys, the British numbers begin to overwhelm the Americans, and Glover orders a withdrawal to another stone wall on the crest of a hill while the next regiment in line, the 26th Continentals, engages the British.

A reconnaissance party of thirty men is sent out from behind the third stone wall to see if the British would try and flank the American position. The party runs into the British, who have continued to advance, and they fall back to the stone wall.

The Americans behind the wall fire one volley before Glover gives the order to retreat.

The Americans withdraw across a bridge over the Hutchinson stream, their retreat covered by the one hundred and fifty men of the 14th Continentals who engage in an artillery duel with the British.

Howe camps on a hill on the opposite side of the stream but makes no attempt to cross the stream

The two generals remain where they are for two days, while Howe reinforces the position on Chatterton Hill, and Washington organizes his army for retreat into the hills.

With the arrival of additional Hessian and Waldeck troops under Lord Percy on October 30, Howe plans to act against the Americans the following day.

However, a heavy rain falls the whole next day, and when Howe is finally prepared to act, he will awakens to find that Washington has again eluded his grasp.

Washington had withdrawn his army into the hills to the north on the night of October 31, establishing a camp near North Castle.

Howe had chosen not to follow, instead attempting without success to draw Washington out.

On November 5, he had turns his army south to finish evicting Continental Army troops from Manhattan, a task he accomplishes with the November 16 Battle of Fort Washington.

After the Hessians under Knyphausen enter the fort, the American officers attempt to placate the Hessian commander, Captain von Malmburg, who is in charge of the surrender.

They invite him into their barracks, and offer him punch, wine, cake, with compliments.

As they leave  the fort, the Hessians strip the American troops of their baggage and beat some of them.

Their officers intervene to prevent further injuries or deaths.

The British capture thirty-four cannons, two howitzers, along with many tents, blankets, tools and much ammunition.

The British and Hessians suffer eighty-four killed and three hundred and seventy-four wounded.

The Americans lose fifty-nine killed, have ninety-six wounded casualties, and two thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight men captured.

Under the usual treatment of prisoners of war in the American Revolutionary War, only eight hundred will survive their captivity to be released eighteen months later in a prisoner exchange; nearly three-quarters of the prisoners will have died.

General Howe, after consolidating British positions around New York harbor, detaches six thousand men under the command of two of his more difficult subordinates, Henry Clinton, and Hugh, Earl Percy to take Newport, Rhode Island (which they do without opposition on December 8), while he sends General Lord Cornwallis to chase Washington's army through New Jersey.

The Americans withdraw across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania in early December.

Washington had entered winter quarters at Morristown, having retaken most of the state from the British.

However, provisions for both armies are limited, and commanders on both sides have sent out parties to forage for food and other supplies.

For the past few months, they have engaged in a forage war, in which each targets the foraging parties of the other.

This leads to numerous skirmishes and minor confrontations including the Battle of Millstone.

The British also snipe with each other over the subject of provisions.

Lord Percy resigns his command after a series of disagreements with Howe come to a head over the ability of the Newport station to provide forage to the New York and New Jersey forces.