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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
ty to thirty feet high, all swept from the bastions, surrounded by a ditch eighty feet wide, were furnished with one hundred and one cannon, seventy-six swivels. and six mortars; its garrison was composed of more Chap. XXIV.} than sixteen hundred men; the harbor was defended by an island battery of thirty twenty-two pounders, 1745 and by the royal battery on the shore, having thirty large cannon, a moat and bastions, all so perfect that it was thought two hundred men could have defended R. Wol cott. it against five thousand. On the other hand, the New England forces had but eighteen cannon and three mortars; but no sooner did they come in sight of the city, than, letting down the whale-boats, they flew to shore, like eagles to the quarry. The French, that came down to prevent the landing, were put to flight, and driven into the woods. On the next day, a detach- May 1. ment of four hundred men, led by William Vaughan, a volunteer from New Hampshire, marched by the city, which i