ten o'clock at
night
The British completed the destruction of the stores and returned to New York . A little later 2000 men were sent on a similar expedition against the town of Danbury , another place on the confines of Courland Manor , where great stores had also been collected . They proceeded up the East River and landed at Camp 's Point . They started on foot at ten o'clock at night , and after a ten hours ' march arrived at eight o'clock at Danbury . The enemy evacuated the place on their approach , and the English set fire to the great magazines filled with stores of all kinds . The news of the march of the English had spread rapidly , and the enemy assembled from all quarters and posted themselves under the command of General Arnold at a town called Ridgefield , through which the English would have to pass on their return . Here they threw up intrenchments .