... prompt answer; as a soldier in his majesty's service, it is my duty to conquer, if I cannot reclaim, all those who may be hardy enough to take up arms against the best of masters. But knowing that Caswell , at the head of the gallant minute men of Newbern, and others to the number of six or eight hundred, was marching through Duplin county, to effect a junction with Moore, Macdonald became aware of t...