The Penn's Grove record., 1923-03-09

Founders through them with such
spirit and success, that in a little time,
the Augusta, a heavy ca ton gun ship,
took fire, and blew up the horrible
balloon of many of the crew. Another
ship, called the Merlin, of Black-Bird,
soon got on the wing, blew up like
wise, and went off in thunder to join
the Augusta.
At the same moment, Col. Donop,
with his Hessians, made a gallant at
tack on the fort at Red Bank. After
a few well directed fires, Greene and
his men a~rtfully retired from the out
works. The enemy now supposing the
day their own, rushed on in vast num-
bers along a large opening in the fort,
and within twenty steps of a masked
battery of IL Founders, loaded with
grape-shop and spike nails. All at
once hell itself seemed to open before
their affrighted view. But their pains
and their terrors were but for a mo-
ment. Together down they sank bv
hundreds, into the sweet slumbers of
death, scarcely sensible of the fatal
blow that reft their lives.
Heaps on heaps the Slaughtered Hes
SLAMS lie:
Brave Greene beholds them with a
fearful eye.
Far now from home, and from their
native shore,
They sleep in death, and hear of wars
no more.
Poor Donop was mortally wounded.
and taken prisoner. The attentions
OF the American officers, and particu-
larly the kind coincidence of the God
like Washington, quite overcame him
and his last moments were stepped in
tears of regret; for having left his
native land, to fight a distant people.
who had V injured him.
On hearing of his misfortune.
Washington sent an officer to condole
with him. The officer was conducted
to his apartments, and delivered the
message. The wounded Count ap-
peared much. affected-a tear swelled
in his eye-and he said to the officer,
Present to Washington the thanks of
an unfortunate brother soldier-tell
nm expect to rise no more-but if
should, the first eXertion of my
strength shall be, to return to him my
thanks in person." The officer sent,
was Colonel Daniel Clymer, of Berks.
Pennsylvania. "See here, Colonel
said the dying Count, "see in me the
vanity of all human pride! | have
shone in all the courts of Europe, anC
now | am dying here, on the banks of
the Delaware, in the house of an OBJ
scure Quaker!!"
After six weeks of infinite fatigue,
with great loss of men and money, the
British forced a passage large enough
for their provision ships to Philadel
phia, where General Howe and his
officers held their balls this winter;
while Is miles distant, the great
Washington, we'll pleased with his
campaign, retired and hutted it a
Valley Forge.
While such i'll success attended this
part of the ministerial plan, viz, tt
choke the colonies by a military moose
so tightly drawn from Chesapeake t.
Champlain, as to stop all circulation
between the northern and southern
States; worse fate frowned on theil
attempt in the north-General Bur
goyne, with 10000 veterans, besides {
host of Canadians and Indians, issu
ing forth from Canada in June 1777
come pouring along down the lake.
like the laundering Niagara, with al
i~mpetuosity that swept everything be.
fore it. The hatchets of the Indians
We're drunk with American blood. Nc
age, no sex, could soften them. "Tht
widows wall, the virgins shrek, anC
infants trembling cry" was music il
their ears. In cold blood they strucl
their tomahawks into the defenseless
head of a Miss M'Rea, a beautiful
girl, who was that very day to hav'
been married! Such acts of inhuman
ity of the Americans, and inspired
that desperate resolution of which the
human heart is capable, but which ne
human force can conquer. The New
Englanders, who were nearest to these
Internal scenes, turned out en- masse
Washington hurried on Gates and Ar
mold with their furious legions; and t.
these he Joined the immortal Morgan
with his dreadful phalanX, 1000 rifle
men, whose triggers were V touch
ed in vain, but could throw a ball {
hundred yards at a squirrels head
and eve miss.
The first check given to Burgoyne's
carter was dI DclllIllS IOL. ICoIlh
that the Americans had laid up large
provisions in that town, he detached
a Colonel Baum, with 900 Germans, tt
surprise it, and, at the same time
posted Colonel Breymon in the neigh.
borhood, with an equal number to sup
port him if necessary. Finding the
place too well guarded either for sur
prise or storm, Baum fortified himself
at a little distance, and sent back fol
Breyman. The American commander
the brave General Starke, thinking
these enemies fully enough, at leas
not wishing for any more sailed out
and with great fury attacked Baum'S
intrenchments. At the first onset, the
Canadian and British marksmen tool
to their heels, and left the poor Ger
mans in the lurch. After a gallant
resistance, Baum was mortally wound.
ed, and his brave c%ountrymen killed OF
taken to a man. In the meantime
Breymer, who had not heard a sylla,
BILE of all this, arrived at the place OF
action, where, instead of the cheering
huzzas of joyful friends, he was sa
luted, on all hands, with the deadly
whizzing of rife bullets. After re
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