Thinking this corps too remote to be supported in case of action, General Washington ordered the Marquis to file off by his left towards Englishtown.

These orders were executed early in the morning of the twenty-seventh.
[Sidenote: June 27.] Lafayette had scarcely taken command of the advanced party, when General Lee began to regret having yielded it to him.

He perceived that, in the opinion of all the general officers, great importance was attached to it, and that his reputation was in danger of being impaired by connecting his strenuous opposition to even a partial action, with his declining the command of a very strong detachment, which, it was believed, would engage the rear of the enemy.

He therefore solicited earnestly for the command he had before declined.
To relieve the feelings of Lee, without wounding those of Lafayette, General Washington detached him with two additional brigades to Englishtown, to support the Marquis.

He would, of course, have the direction of the whole front division, which would now amount to five thousand continental troops; but it was expressly stipulated, that if any enterprise had been already formed by Lafayette, it should be carried into execution, as if the commanding officer had not been changed.