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The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fatal accident. (search)
attacking force consisted of thirty-seven ships of the line, twenty-three sloops of war, twenty-eight gun, mortar and bomb vessels, thirty-six smaller vessels, eighty-two gun-boats, innumerable transports, with over forty thousand troops and an immense artillery train, making in all, says the English historian, "an hundred thousand combatants. " Yet the feeble defences at Flushing resisted successfully a fire from the fleet, compared with which French officers, who had been at Austerlitz and Jena, declared that the cannonade at those battles was a mere jeud'enfans, and were only reduced by the land forces after a siege of eighteen days. In the meantime the fortifications at Antwerp had been repaired, and after a fruitless operation of a whole month in, the river, the English were gradually forced to retreat to the mouth of the Scheldt, and finally to evacuate their entire conquest. Such was the result of an expedition comprising a naval force more than three times the number of all t