Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-08-23
wv hole No. 1890.

perfect silence prevailed throughout the ranks
OF both armies. The British soldiers moved
forward nth their accustomed fearlessness, and
the Americans, With much ap parent coolness.
stood TO receive them. Now, however, when
little more than an hundred PAGES divided the
cue line from the other, both parties made rez-
dy TO bring matters more decidedly 10 n per-
sonal struggle. The Americans were the fret
TO use their small arms. Having rent the air
with Q shout, thes fired a volley, begun upon
the right, aud carried away regularly to the ex-
IRENE Jeff. and then loading again kept up an
unin,ermited discharge. which soon 10 a great
degree concealed them from our observation.
Nor were We backward in returning the salute.
A hearty British cheer gave notice OF our Will
ingness to meet them. and hrine and runnlngs
we gradually closed upun them, with the de-
sign Of Infringing the bayonet iato play.
Ihardiy know what language TO employ foe
he purpose of conveying to TIE mind OF tho
reader VINO possesses no practical acquaintance
With the subject, something like q clear idea
OF a battle, AZ that period Ia It's progress ~
which we have nov arrived Volley upan vol
ley having been gwen, we were now advanced
within less than twenty yards OF The American
Inc. yet such was the depseness OF The smoke
that II was only when . passing bree &c swept q.
wsy the cloud for a NOR eat, that either force
became visible to the other. u was not, there.
tore, at mems persons that the fire OF cur SOL
diers was directed. The flashes Of the enemy's
muskets alone served a. an object to aim at, as,
withou, doubt. the fasbes Of our musket alono
guided the enemy. At last, however,, the wind
suddenly sprung up. The obscurity ia which
both parties had been enveloped was cleared
away. and there, sure enough, stood our %.
ponents, not as they had stood an hour ago, ia
close ard compact array, but confused by the
nufderous fire to which they had been exposed.
Napoleon Buousparte has affirmed, that he ne
yer Witnessed any thing more terrific than the
FIRE OF a British line OF infantry The Ex ems
peror was perfectly correct. In the armies Of
Other nations, particular In those OF America.
nsny msrksmen. more expert 40 individuals.
ma, be found; but we may search the world
over before We ST. all discover troops, who Is Z
body, take aim with the same GOODNESS, reserve
then f c so well, or, as a necessary consc@
q ieace pour II 10 with such tremendous effect
- our own soldiers. OF this, the Americans
had to-day received he most appalling proofs;
numbers IL, dead at the feet Of their CONT AIDES,
numbers more had retired NAMED or woundeds
and those who stul ket / the field were broken
and confused One thing alone WAS required
to complete the route. Our gallant fellows,
uttering a hearty cheer. threw in their last vol
ley, and then rushed forward with the ~bayonefi
but a shock, which the flower Of European ar.
l UitNh hau never bCSu a9sE " WAbosahtt ~ "a
~rericans ventured not to receive. They lost
in q moment all order. and FED, a. every man
best could. from the field
There was but ono road along which horses
or Carriages could saoge. and il became crow
ded to an excess in a moment Whilst the in-
~fantry, dashiag into the forest. thought to con.
ceal themselves among rs mazes, the cavalry,
| Of which few squadrons had been drawn up
upon their right, scampered oil by the main
road, and was Immediately followed by guns,
~tuphriis. ammunition wagons, and the whole
material or the army. TO arrest the progress
Of all, or some part Of that force, became NOW
our great object. "fiurrah for the gunsr' war
4 word OF command first uttered by col. Brookes
il was repeated, with loud laughter and tumul-
suoas outcrles, from one rank 10 snother-snd
desperate and underwriting we're the efforts
which we made to overtake and cut off such
az we're ~hindmost. But %unhappily the absence
" even the mounted troopers told sorely q.
gainst us 10 day. The truth OF il is, the Ame-
rican ordinance, drawn by feet horses. readily
escaped. and out Of the whols party, only
two guns and one tumbril alone, fell into our
hands. OF prisoners, however, we were for
iunate enough to secure q few. The fourth re-
giment, which bad made adetour, for the pur-
pose Of turning the enemy's left. though u il ar.
rived not in time to take much share in the &C.
tion, succeeded in cutting off about halt 9 bat.
talon from the high road: and this body, drive
en- back upon its p~ursuers, saved itself from
annih,latlon by laying dow its arns.
Thus ended the affair OF The 10Th Of Septem-
Der, after about an hour and a half Of pretty
severe Fighting. On oar part, the loss sus-
tanned coaId NOT exceed two hundred men in
al; on the part Of the Americans, q: least lou
BILE that number had fallen The dead, indeed,
lay u clusters far more frequent, and far more
numerous than any where l discovered on the
field OF Bladensburg; and As the proportion be-
tween the killed and wounded in an army 10
usually as five to one, is was easy TO collect
thar the whole amount OF persons rendered
horse de combat, must have been very consid-
cradle Yet there was not amongst US one man.
Nno did not feel that the victory had been pur-
chased at a terrible ~price--it had cost the life
Of our genera, and in SO doing bad crippled all
our resources.
The day being now considerably advanced
AMI the troops some what fatigued by their ex-
ertlons, our new leader determined 10 halt tor
that night on the field which be had won. With
this view the buglss were directed TO sound
the recali-whiist the quarter master general
proceeded to FIX upon u proper spot Tor the
bisouac, and to station The out posts. Nor we're
the medical attendants Of the army uDmindiui
i their important charge.
Fatal .accidsnt.-Mr. George Linden
ninth. amployed in a stone quarry. at