The strong doors of the engine-house were soon battered in, and, with the loss of one man killed, the invaders were captured.
Colonel Robert E. Lee arrived with a force of marines, hastily gathered together, and dispatched from Washington.  The strong doors of the engine-house were soon battered in, and, with the loss of one man killed, the invaders were captured.  Brown was executed at Charlestown soon after — an impolitic proceeding, in the opinion of many Southern men.