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Monthly Chronicle.
division into one column , Col . Dessources proceeded through a most difficult and almost inaccessible country , to turn the left of the enemy's batten- and the works which supported it , having left troops on the heights of St . Lament , to secure his retreat , and Major Clay to protect him from am- attack that might be made by the road from Leogane . As the Colonel approached the flank of the battery , and that of the breast-work which defended it , he successively broke his troops into divisions , which kept the enemy ' s force in check andsuspence , until another division under the command of Lieut-ColDessourceshadto their
. . , , great surprise , possessed themselves of the heights , considerably bevond them , when , after an ineffectual resistance , they fled on all sides , and left Col . Dessources in possession of the battery , the work of several months , and of the gun which they had , in the preceding night , withdrawn from it , for the defence of their breast-work This critical enterpme was . effected with but little loss . _ " As the troops were assembling to proceed to other objects , which I thought of importance for the king's serviceI informed bBri Churchifl
, was y gadier-general of the attack that had been made at Irois , where , though the enemv had been fortunately repulsed in the assault upon that post , they still continued to invest it and to threaten its siege . ' No time was lost in dispatching the Hon . Colonel Maitland , with a sufficient force , to the assistance of that officer . On his arrival , Brigadier-general Churchill informed him of the repulse of the enemy . '
¦ Return of killed and -Mounded . , In driving the enemy from their ambuscade , above Post Guerin , ( Jean Kina ' s entrenched camp , under the command of Major Clay , of the 4 oth Regiment , one rank and file , killed ; one oriicer , one Serjeant , one rank and file wounded On the attack of posts St . Laurent and Boutillier , two officers , one Serjeant four rank and file , killed ; four Officers , nine rank and file wounded ' At the attack of the 'batterybreastworksand lacesof
enemys , - , p arms near Post Grenier one rank and file , killed ; one officer , one Serjeant , 12 rank and file Names and rani of officers killed and wounded . Capt . Haly , of the 3 d Irish Brigade wounded ; Major Pouchet , of the Jeremie troops , killed ; Lieut . De ia Rue , of Dessources , killed ; Ensign Eviere of Prince of Wales's chasseurswoundedLieutenants Babin and of
, ; Campanne Jean Kmas corps , wounded ; and Ensigns Le Pine and L'Artigonave , ' of ditto , wounded . ° " ' ADMIRALTY-OFFICE , AUGUST I , 1797 . The following dispatches have been received at this office by Evan Nepean Esq .
« T > . . „ . , „ Y ' M ' de Paris , off Cadiz , July t .. I desire you will acquaint the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that that the Terpsichore , w ; th the Thunder Bomb , having adetachi , ent ofartillery on board , and the Urchin gun-boat , from Gibraltar , joined on the 2 d instant , and the night following Rear Admiral Nelson , having made his dispositions , the bomb , covered by the gun-boats , launches and barges of the fleet ,- was placed near the Tower of San Sebastian , and fired some shells into-the town , when an attempt was made by the gun-boats and launches of the enemy to carry her The Rear-Admiralwho is always present in the most arduous
, enterprises , with the assistance of some other barges , boarded and . carried two of the enemy '* gun-boatsand a largelaunchof one of their ships of war , with the Commandant of the Flottilla . In i ' ussho / t conflict 18 or 20 Spaniards were killed , the Commandant and several wounded ,-he and 25 made prisoners ; the rest swam ashore . J . JERVIS , * f Return of the killed and wounded en the night of the \ d of July , 1797 . Theseus , 5 wounded ; Irresistible , 1 won-de , ! ; Sea-horse , 1 wounded ; Ville de Paris , 5 wounded ; Prince George , . killed ,-, wounded ; Diadem , 1 woundedj » Barfleur , 1 wounded ; Egmont , 1 wounded ; Total , " * killed ; 20 wounded .
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Monthly Chronicle.
division into one column , Col . Dessources proceeded through a most difficult and almost inaccessible country , to turn the left of the enemy's batten- and the works which supported it , having left troops on the heights of St . Lament , to secure his retreat , and Major Clay to protect him from am- attack that might be made by the road from Leogane . As the Colonel approached the flank of the battery , and that of the breast-work which defended it , he successively broke his troops into divisions , which kept the enemy ' s force in check andsuspence , until another division under the command of Lieut-ColDessourceshadto their
. . , , great surprise , possessed themselves of the heights , considerably bevond them , when , after an ineffectual resistance , they fled on all sides , and left Col . Dessources in possession of the battery , the work of several months , and of the gun which they had , in the preceding night , withdrawn from it , for the defence of their breast-work This critical enterpme was . effected with but little loss . _ " As the troops were assembling to proceed to other objects , which I thought of importance for the king's serviceI informed bBri Churchifl
, was y gadier-general of the attack that had been made at Irois , where , though the enemv had been fortunately repulsed in the assault upon that post , they still continued to invest it and to threaten its siege . ' No time was lost in dispatching the Hon . Colonel Maitland , with a sufficient force , to the assistance of that officer . On his arrival , Brigadier-general Churchill informed him of the repulse of the enemy . '
¦ Return of killed and -Mounded . , In driving the enemy from their ambuscade , above Post Guerin , ( Jean Kina ' s entrenched camp , under the command of Major Clay , of the 4 oth Regiment , one rank and file , killed ; one oriicer , one Serjeant , one rank and file wounded On the attack of posts St . Laurent and Boutillier , two officers , one Serjeant four rank and file , killed ; four Officers , nine rank and file wounded ' At the attack of the 'batterybreastworksand lacesof
enemys , - , p arms near Post Grenier one rank and file , killed ; one officer , one Serjeant , 12 rank and file Names and rani of officers killed and wounded . Capt . Haly , of the 3 d Irish Brigade wounded ; Major Pouchet , of the Jeremie troops , killed ; Lieut . De ia Rue , of Dessources , killed ; Ensign Eviere of Prince of Wales's chasseurswoundedLieutenants Babin and of
, ; Campanne Jean Kmas corps , wounded ; and Ensigns Le Pine and L'Artigonave , ' of ditto , wounded . ° " ' ADMIRALTY-OFFICE , AUGUST I , 1797 . The following dispatches have been received at this office by Evan Nepean Esq .
« T > . . „ . , „ Y ' M ' de Paris , off Cadiz , July t .. I desire you will acquaint the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that that the Terpsichore , w ; th the Thunder Bomb , having adetachi , ent ofartillery on board , and the Urchin gun-boat , from Gibraltar , joined on the 2 d instant , and the night following Rear Admiral Nelson , having made his dispositions , the bomb , covered by the gun-boats , launches and barges of the fleet ,- was placed near the Tower of San Sebastian , and fired some shells into-the town , when an attempt was made by the gun-boats and launches of the enemy to carry her The Rear-Admiralwho is always present in the most arduous
, enterprises , with the assistance of some other barges , boarded and . carried two of the enemy '* gun-boatsand a largelaunchof one of their ships of war , with the Commandant of the Flottilla . In i ' ussho / t conflict 18 or 20 Spaniards were killed , the Commandant and several wounded ,-he and 25 made prisoners ; the rest swam ashore . J . JERVIS , * f Return of the killed and wounded en the night of the \ d of July , 1797 . Theseus , 5 wounded ; Irresistible , 1 won-de , ! ; Sea-horse , 1 wounded ; Ville de Paris , 5 wounded ; Prince George , . killed ,-, wounded ; Diadem , 1 woundedj » Barfleur , 1 wounded ; Egmont , 1 wounded ; Total , " * killed ; 20 wounded .