I will stay with my count of over a 1,000 dead (counting both sides). The original diary translated by the late retired Major Joseph Tustin. USAAF Historian for Europe and an excellent translator of German script. No Tustin didn't mistake 1,000 for 1 dozen. I wish Joseph Tustin were alive to alleviate errors in other sources. Ed, 9 miles from White Plains http://members.tripod.com/~Silvie/Schilling.html

Ed Maul wrote (in part) -- <<clip>>I will stay with my count of over a 1,000 dead (counting both sides). The original diary translated by the late retired Major Joseph Tustin. USAAF Historian for Europe and an excellent translator of German script. No Tustin didn't mistake 1,000 for 1 dozen. I wish Joseph Tustin were alive to alleviate errors in other sources. Tustin's translation (p. 13) reads: "I think that the losses were nearly equal on both sides. When I rode over the battlefield the next day, I counted about one thousand dead[footnote 33]. General Howe's army made its camp upon the battlefield. . . ." Tustin's footnote reads. "33. I have been unable to verify Ewald's surprising estimate of the number of dead. Howe's deputy adjutant general states that the British-Hessian losses were "several officers and 180 killed and wounded," but Captain von der Malsberg says the loss was "about 286 dead and wounded." The next day the American losses were reported "from conjecture, betweem 400 and 500"; however, three weeks later Wasahington believed the British losses to be about 300 and the America "little more than half" that number. [concludes with footnote citations]" Boatner wrote "Although the Americans initially put their losses between 400 and 500, the final estimate was about 150. (Freeman 230 n) Fortescue gives Howe's losses as 313: 214 British and 99 Hessians killed and wounded." Ward wrote: "The loss of the Americans is variously reported. Bancroft says fewer than a hundred killed and wounded. Irving says three to four hundred, including prisoners taken. Whitton, citing an English account, says very definitely 313. Hufeland, citing regimental returns, says 175. On the other side, as officially reported, there were 28 killed, including 5 officers, and 126 wounded, also including 5 officers. Among the Hessians there were about 77 casualties." The numbers I previously posted as totals are listed in Beatson by rank and status. The officers killed or wounded are named. The casualties applicable to White Plains are listed as: "In the action of the 28th of October, in passing the Brunks river, and in previous skirmishes, from the 19th of October inclusive." Beatson's listing for the Chasseurs [Jägers] was 4 rank & file killed; 1 subaltern, 9 rank & file wounded; 2 rank and file missing. The subaltern is identified as "Lieutenant de Rau." Tustin's translation of Ewald's journal has re: the 23rd of October: "I got off with a loss of six dead and eleven wounded, including Lieutenant Rau, who was shot in the foot, and two taken prisoner." This typifies the difficulty of attempting to reconcile casualty lists. Bob Brooks