. The British in Capri, 1806-1808 . other officersand men of this detachment, and the zeal which impelledtheir efforts to join the rest of the regiment, could haveenabled them to pass. One man alone was killed, andone hurt, by falling down the precipice. From CaptainChurch, Lieutenant-Colonel Lowe learnt that about ahundred and fifty of the Maltese were at Monte Solaro,and the rest made prisoners, that, previous to thisdeparture, he had employed his men, under the directionof Ensign Davis, in bringing water and biscuit from theHermitage, to increase the stock at the fort, and hadsuggested the
. The British in Capri, 1806-1808 . other officersand men of this detachment, and the zeal which impelledtheir efforts to join the rest of the regiment, could haveenabled them to pass. One man alone was killed, andone hurt, by falling down the precipice. From CaptainChurch, Lieutenant-Colonel Lowe learnt that about ahundred and fifty of the Maltese were at Monte Solaro,and the rest made prisoners, that, previous to thisdeparture, he had employed his men, under the directionof Ensign Davis, in bringing water and biscuit from theHermitage, to increase the stock at the fort, and hadsuggested the continuance of these exertions to theofficers of the Malta Regiment. No officer of the Malta Regiment arrived from Ana^capri : no report could be obtained from any of themof the occurrences which befel that Corps ; but, areport was presented by Captain Church, which isannexed to this journal. This does not, however, statethe principal cause of the defeat of that regiment andof the loss of Anacapri, namely, the total want of opposi-. WALL IN THE TRACK OF THE DESCENT OF SIR RICHARD CHURCH,built by the Commune of Anacapri for ontroi reasons. JOURNAL OF OCCURRENCES 169 tion, until the enemy had actually effected his landing,and thus overcome his greatest and almost sole difficulty,and the neglect of attacking him until force had accumu-lated. The gallantry, perseverance, and spirit of CaptainChurchs detachment, in the opposition which it pre-sented to the enemy in his various attempts to advanceafter landing, was highly conspicuous, and much of theenemys loss may be attributed to it. The spot where the enemy effected his landing was arocky clift, shelving down towards the sea, until it brokeoff in an abrupt rugged precipice, about fifteen or twentyfeet above the waters level. This was the generalnature of the coast along the whole extent of abouttwo miles from Damicuto to Limbo. In those points,where the rock was broken and indented and appearedmost accessible, walls of masonry had
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