Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 edition. Excerpt: ...We are sorry to be compelled to say, that colonel Brooke was present, but not at the head Qf his regiment; owing, it would seem, to some pique or misunderstanding. Comparing his competency with the notorious incompetency of lieutenant-colonel Mullihs, colonel Brooke has much to answer for. Major Latour having heard, as he could not fail to do, that the check in the advance of the right British column arose from the want of the fascines and ladders, describes the men as " shouldering their muskets, and all carrying fascines, and some with ladders." Here he is outdone by Mr. O'Connor; who, in his representation of the action, has actually placed a ladder, and a long one foo directly against the parapet. Colonel Rennie, of the engineers, at the head of a division of the British left brigade, under major-general Keane, was directed, as we gather Latour's War in Louisiana, p. 154. from the American accounts, (for the British official letter contains no details, ) to storm an unfinished redoubt upon the enemy's right. "The detachment ordered against this place," says general Jackson's biographist, " formed the left of general Keane's command. Rennie executed his orders with great bravery; and, urging forward, arrived at the ditch. His advance was greatly annoyed by commodore Patterson's battery on the left bank, and the cannon mounted on the redoubt; but, reaching our works, and passing the ditch, Rennie, sword in hand, leaped on the wall, and, calling to his troops bade them to follow: he had scarcely spoken, when he fell, by the fatal aim of our riflemen. Pressed by the impetuosity of superior numbers who were mounting the wall, and entering at the embrasures, our troops had retired to the line, in rear of the redoubt. A momentary pause...
