Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1813-09-29

the marshy ground and bitches. At the ap-
Proach of the sucCours sent by the enemy,
Capt Kosakowski retired into the place with a
trifling loss that of tie enemy in killed was
considerable. a Russian officer and some
foot chasseurs were made prisoners at Chyze.
From that time to the 26th April. the enemy
had succeeded, in spite Of the efforts of the
garrison, to build eleven redoubts all around,
and At Tie distance of from 500 to 500 toses
from the place; these were supplied with So
pieces othcavy ordnance, with which he kept 4
constant hiring BY day and night on the place.
Measures had been taken against combustion !;
all the exposed magazines had been covered
with blinds the garrison was lodged in the
level grounds arched bomb proof, in so much
that some thousand bomb shells and cannon
balls have only killed sentry and wounded
two officers, eight soldiers, two women, a child
and 4 servant man. One hundred and twenty
quintals of!iay, and two hundred of straw have
been burnt, and great number of roofs and
upper ceilings have been damaged; especially
at the military hospital, against which the
greatest efforts OF the enemy were constantly
directed.
On the 9th went in person to rcconnoitrc
an insulated redoGbt which The enemy had just
been erecting on the road to Loublin, 600 toises
from the place: 1 conceived it to be good
prize. The same day at Z. NJ. the chief OF
battalion kosincwiski, at the head Of 500 men
divided into three columns, attacked and took
the redoubt in spite of the most obstinate re-
sistance. The Commandant of the redoubt,
artillery and some other officers, together with
200 soldiers, were killed within the redoubt
itself. One hundred and twenty men, among
whom were 4 officers, were made prisoners :;
two l2.pOunders, two inches hcornes with
their caissons, were taken and brought in the
place, where they now make figure on the
ramparts Seven field pieces, placed on the
TANKS OF the columns entrusted with the attack
oil the redoubtr carried death among the enc
my's battalions, which poured from All parts n
full galiop to afford it relief. They dismount
ed one OF the pieces of artillery which these
battalions had with them. The sum being set,
night put an end 10 the combat. The Chief of
battalion, Kosinowiski re-entered the place
having received slight confusion.
The enemy, besides the artillery and arnmu-
milton, has lost SOC men in killed wounded and
prisoners. The foot Chasseurs OF the 43d re-
glinent, and the cannoneerS who defended iie
redout, were almost every ore of them decor
ated with crosses and medals for having aken
byassault the place OF Bazarzick. Not a sin
sic man escaped from the redoubt.
Our loss, though sensibly felt, is however
not great; it consists of 3 officers and IS men
Killed, and officers and 20 men wounded.
This brilliant affair caused fhe enemy torchcct.
During the two following days he abandoned
all the redoubts, removed beyond the reach Of
cannon, and converted the siege into a block
ade.-Snce that time, in the daily skiTTnisbes
OF our out posts, the enemy has experienced
sensible losses. The Volgeurs of the 18Th
regiment of infantry are particularly intent 4
Salnst the cossacks Of the Don, who are always
well supplied with roubies they bring IN
some of them every 6iav.
The loss OF the enemy, from the 18th
March tn the 4 9TH nP luna NAV ba as