France and England in North America . didnot attack us with any regularity, and made nointrenchments to cover themselves. This last isnot exact. Not being wholly demented, they madeintrenchments, such as they were, — at least, at theadvanced battery ;2 as they would otherwise havebeen swept out of existence, being under the concen-tred fire of several French batteries, two of whichwere within the range of a musket-shot. The scarcity of good gunnere was one of the chiefdifficulties of the besiegere. As privateering, andpiracy also, against Frenchmen and Spaniards was a 1 Bi(int an Ministre, 1 A
France and England in North America . didnot attack us with any regularity, and made nointrenchments to cover themselves. This last isnot exact. Not being wholly demented, they madeintrenchments, such as they were, — at least, at theadvanced battery ;2 as they would otherwise havebeen swept out of existence, being under the concen-tred fire of several French batteries, two of whichwere within the range of a musket-shot. The scarcity of good gunnere was one of the chiefdifficulties of the besiegere. As privateering, andpiracy also, against Frenchmen and Spaniards was a 1 Bi(int an Ministre, 1 Amit, 1745. 2 Diary nf Joseph Sheriurn, Captain at the Advanced .y0L ^
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