The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1825-05-19
REVOLUTIONARY EVENTS.
Battle Of BvanAywine.

the cleVeHtn Vi oepteHhoCI, lfff, "iN i'to'Su
all the day long. 1t was bloody affair to
US, and had we'll nigh been fatal to Greene
and Sullivan.
We had been in the saddle about four
hours under the intrepid Pulaski, who, with
his own hand, examined our points, pistols
and funiture, as if assured that the struggle
would be deadly, and long continued ono.
The day was one of the most beautiful that
ever broke over the earth. We were about
a half mile from the main body, ranged along
slope, facing the west; our horses, in NUM-
ber about four hundred standing as patient
ly as SO many marble creatures--until just
as the eastern sky began to redden and I'M
dulate; and cloud after cloud to roll up; and
heave like a curtain, upon the wind; and the
whole heaven seemed discharging all its
beauty and brightness upon one spot hap
pened to turn and saw the tall Pole, bare
headed, fitting about his horse, ike some
warlike presence come up out OF the solid
earth, to worship upon the V ny summit of
the hill behind US: it might be, for the noble
carriage of the man--the martial bearing OF
the soldier, would permit either interprtta-
tion; it might be i'll the awful employment
of devotion--or- lin the more earthward one
of martial observation. But suddenly, he
reined up his charger shook the heavy dew
leaped headlong down the hill, fast as the
bright flash passed away on the horizon fol-
lowed by loud report; and the next mo-
ment, part of our ranks were covered with
dust and turf, thrown up by cannon ball
that struck within few hundred yards OF the
place he had Just left. Our horses pticked
up their ears at the sound, and all at once, as
if a hundred trunpets were playing N the
wind came the enemy in his advance.
Pulaski unsheathed his sword--caled out
a select body, and set off at full gallop to a
more distant elevation, where We saw the
enemy advancing in two columns, one under
knyphausen. which moved in tremendous
steadlncss, like dark solid mass, IN i tircc-
tion toward Maxwell; the other, under Corn
wallis, which seemed TO threaten the right
flank of our main body Intelligence .ts
Immediately sent to Washington, and REIN
torcemcnts called IN from the horse that We
had left.
We kept our position, awaiting, tor a
whole hour, the sound of conflict: Il. last
heavy voley ratified along the SHY, few
moments passed and then another followed,
ike a storm Of iron upon drulnhcads. The
whole mir wrung with it; another, ard anoth
err followed, and then gradually increasing III
loudness, came peal after peal upon US; till
it resembled one continual clap OF thunder,
rolling aboat under All Illuminated yapour.
But Pulaski with all his impctuosity was 4
general; and knew nis duty too we'll to haz-
ard any move nent, till ne should be able to
see with sertainty, the operation Of the eur
my in the Ydpour below Meanwhile, sever |
al little parties that VIC had sent out, came
in, one after the other in fun galop with the
intelligence. that Knyphausen had broken ,
down upon Maxwell i'll magnificent style
been beaten back, again and again; but thar 1
had finally prevailed, and that Maxwell had I
retreated across the RIVER
A thin vapour now arose from the green
earth be.ow US and completely covered the \
enemy from our view. twas no longer pos
siblc 10 follow him, except by the sound OF
his tread, which tie could feel in tile Solid ,
earth, jarrng ourselves and our horses; and /
now and then, quick sIimmering il Lae
mist, Us some standard Was raised above 1t
some weapon hourisned, or some masket
shot through t--like rocket.
About an hour after, a horseman dashed
through the smoke on the very Verge o. the
horizon-and that aftci securing the fields
for a whole mile, within view, Commitment
ing with TWO or three others, who set uf in
different dlrections--one to US with orders
to harry down to the ford where the com.
mander-ln-chlet Was determined to fail Gp- 4
on knyphduSen with all his power, before
Cornwallis could come TO his aid II was I.
noble but hazardous game. And Pulaski,
whose warehouse literally numbered and
lshtcned along the stony and broken prcci-
pice, by which we descended, kept his eyes
warily to the right, .s II not quite CERTAIN,
that the order 4odld not be cogntcrnand-
ed.
We soon fell in with Greene who was post
ing on, all fire, to give kuyphausen battlc and
the next moment, saw Sullivan IN full march,
over distant hill, (upon which, the morn
ing sun broke oat just then, as It leaving the
heavens Tor whilc,) to the encmy's Hank.
This arrangement would nave been fatal
to KnyphAusen; Dut uniuckily there was d
stop put e. it, almost in the very moment
when we We're ready to tan upon hin, man
and horse, by the alarming intelligence, that
Cornwallis had moved off to another quar-
ter. There was moment of irrcsout!on--
doubt. 1t was the death OF US. Greene was
recalled, and 5utllvan commanded to halt.
Hardly hal tai, happened, and cur horse,
covered with sweat and froth--fretting like
chained tigers upon the bit; our men cover
ed with dust, and blinded with the wind and
sun-tor it was extremely hot and Sultr!-
when heavy cannonade was heard on our
Hank; and Greene, whose div lsion we had
been attached to, was put in motion Tor the
aid OF Sullivan, whom We had left some
hours bcfore.-Ihe truth now broke upoa
us like Il thunder clap. The enemy mad
passed and concentrated; (aswas supposedly