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communicated with two or three others.
who set oil in different directions: one
TO as, with orders to hurry down to the
lord, where the commander. in chief
was determined to fall on Knyphau,su
with all his power. before Cornwaliis
could come to his aid. Ii was noble
but hazardous game. And Pulaski,
whose war horse literally Numbered
and lightened along the broken and
stony preeipice by which we descend.
ed, Kept his eyes warily TO the right,
as u not quite certain that the order
would not be countermanded.
We soon fell in with General Green
who was posting all on Gre to give
knyphsusen battle; and the next mo.
ment saw Sullivan in full march over n
distant hill towards the enemy's flank.
This arrangement would, doubtless,
have proved fatal to Knyphsusen, had
not our operations been unfortunately
arrested. at the very moment we were
prepared to fall upon him, man and
horse, by the intelligence that Corn
wallis had moved on TO another quar-.
ter. IL was moment Of irresolution
doubt. Ii WAS the desth-bIow 70
our brilliant hopes of victory. Greene
was recalled, aud Sullivan command.
ed 10 halt.
Hardly had this happened, our horses
being covered with sweat and froth,
fretting on the bit like chained tigers,
aud ourselves covered with dust, il be-
ios an excessively hot and sultry day,
when a heavy cannonado was heard
on our right flank, and Greene, to
whose division we had been attached,
was put In motion to support Sullivan,
whom We had left some hours before.
The truth now broke upon US like a
thunderclap. The enemy had passed,
concentrated, as We supposed, and
fallen upon our right.
shall never forget Greene's eoun-
tenancc. when the news came; he was
on the road side, upon an almost per
pendicular bank but he wheeled where
ne was, dashed down the bank, his
face white - the bleaehed marble, and
called to us to gailop forward, with
such 4 tremendous impulse, that we
marched four miles in forty minutes.
We held on our way in cloud Of dust,
and met Sullivan all in disorder, near.
~ mile from the field, retreating step
by step, at the head of his men, and
shouting himself hoarse, covered with
blood and sweat. aud striving in vain
to bring them TO stand, while Cornwall
LIS was pouring in upon them an inces-
SAINT vOiiey. Pulaski dashed out to
the right, over the broken fences, aud
there stood awhile upright in his stir
ruPs, accommodating. while the enemy,
who appeared by the smoke and the
dust that rolled before them in the
wind, to be much nearer than thew
really were, redoabled their efforts /;
but at last. Pulaski saw q favorable op-
Portunity-the column wheeled; the
wind swept across their van, revealing
them like battalion Of spirits, breath
ing IRE and smoke. He gave the sig
nal; Archibald repeated it; then Ar
thur; then myself. In three minutes
we we're ready for tho word.
When Pulaski, shouting in a voice
that thrilled through and through US,
struck has purs to charger; IL was hall
minute, so fierce and terrible was his
charge, beiore we were able TO come
up with him. What could he mean!
Gracious Heaven! my hanL convuI
siveiy, like that Of q drowning nan,
refined up Tor u moment when ! saw we
were galloping straight forward into a
held OF bayonets; yet he was the first
man! and who would not have follow
ed himi
We did follow him, and with such a
hurricane Of fire aud steel, that, when
we wheeled, our whole path lay broad
before US, with a wall Of fire OH the
RICH, hand and on the left; but no, q
bayonet OF a blade in GroLi, except
what were under the hoofs of our horses
my blood rushes now, like q flash Of
fire through my forehead, when | recall
the devastation that we then made, al
most TO the very heart Of the enemy :
column
But Pulaski, he who afterwards rode
into their Entertainments on horseback,
sword IN hand. was accustomed to ~ ;
aud having broke over them once, q.
ware oi his peril # I've should give them
time To awake from their ConsiernA-
tOn, he wheeled IN q blaze Of FIRE,
with the intention Of returning through
wall OF death, more prriIous than that
which shut ia the children OF Israel,
upon the Red Sea. hut no! the wall
lad rolled in upon US: and we were
left no alternative, but 10 continue as
We had began.
The Undaunted Pole rio,ed in the
excess Of his joy! remember we'll
how I've passed me, o,ered With swea,
and dusi, riding absolutely upon the
very points Oi their bayOnets. Hut, a.
last, they pressed upon him, add horse
man after horseman fell from our sal
dies; when We were alt faint and fee.
bic. and even Arehlbald was lighting
Oh loot, over his beautiful horse, with
Arthur battling over hts head, we heard
the cry Of " SuccOr! Suceof." I'm
mediaiely We felt the enemy give way,
beaving lhIs way. then thar, add FINAL.