2013, ISBN: 9781130725261

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 edition. Excerpt: ...firmness, and with trifling loss. As the centre column, composed of the regulars, entered, a battery of two cannon was opened on it, with ball. and _grape, and a shower of musketry from the houses and fences. They had made but three fires, when the battery was stormed by captain Laval, and the fire of the regulars soon silenced the _ This promising oflicer was killed in the act of storming the battery. musketry. Governor Manriquez met the troops in the streets; and begged colonels Williamson and Smith, the first oflicers he met, to show mercy to the town; which request, by the orders of the general, was granted, on an unconditional surrender of the town and forts. This was agreed to; and the citizens, with their property, were protected. Still Spanish treachery could not be evaded: the fort St. Michael was withheld till twelve o'clock at night. On the morning of the 8th, the fort of Barrancas was blown up with a tremendous explosion, all the cannon spiked except two, and every combustible matter burnt to ashes. This act enabled Nichols to escape from the harbour with his fleet. Captain Woodbine and the Red Sticks were conveyed by Nichols to the Appalachicola river, where a strong fort was built, about twenty-five miles above the mouth, and manned with three hundred troops, to which there was an immediate resort of Indians and runaway negroes. A small fort was also built, about two miles below the junction of the Chattahochee and Flint rivers, and one mile south of the old Appalachicola fort. The principal fortifications of the harbour being destroyed at Pensacola, general Jackson evacuated the town, after holding possession only two days. Major Blue was despatched, with a thousand mounted men, against the forts on the Appalachicola,... Weight:0.29 lbs, RareBooksClub.com, 9/13/2013 0:00:00<