Identifier: historyofuniteds03banc (find matches)
Title: A history of the United States, from the discovery of the American continent ..
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Bancroft, George, 1800-1891
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Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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mpshire, marched by the city,which it greeted with three cheers, and took post nearthe north-east harbor. The French who held theroyal battery, struck with panic, spiked its guns, andabandoned it in the night. In the morning, boats fromthe city came to recover it; but Vaughan and thirteenmen, standing on the beach, kept them from landingtill a reenforcement arrived. To a major in one of theregiments of Massachusetts, Seth Pomroy, from North-ampton, a gunsmith, was assigned the oversight ofabove twenty smiths in drilling the cannon, whichwere little injured; and the Are from the city andthe island battery was soon returned. Louisburg,wrote Pomroy to his family, is an exceedingly strongplace, and seems impregnable. It looks as if ourcampaign would last long; but I am willing to stay tillGods time comes to deliver the city into our hands. Suffer no anxious thought to rest in your mind aboutme, replied his wife, from the bosom of New Eng-land. The ^-vhole town is much engaged with concern
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U4 SIEGE OF LOUISBURG. 461 for the expedition, how Providence will order the af- chap.fair, for which religious meetings every week are -—v-^maintained. I leave jou in the hand of God. 174 5. The troops made a jest of technical military terms ;they laughed at proposals for zigzags and epaule- ^^^^^^^_ments. The light of nature, however, taught them 375!to erect fascine batteries at the west and south-westof the city. Of these the most effective was com-manded by Tidcomb, whose readiness to engage inhazardous enterprises was justly a))plauded. As it wasnecessary, for the purposes of attack, to drag the cannonover boggy morasses, impassable for wheels, Meserve, J^nap.a New Hampshire colonel, who was a carpenter, con-structed sledges; and on these the men, with strapsover their shoulders, sinking to their knees in mud,drew them safely over. Thus the siege proceeded ^i°siin a random manner. The men knew little of strictdiscipline ; they had no fixed encampment; destituteof tents to kee

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