The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . or and amazement, to the column of General Gibbs did not advance after the fallof their leader. Leaving heaps of slain behind them, they,too, forsook the bloody field, rushed in utter confusionout of the fire, and took refuge at the bottom of wetditches and behind trees and bushes on the borders of the swamp The whole was like a dream. How long a time, does thereader think, elapsed between the fire of the first Americangun and the total rout of the attacking columns ? Twenty-live minutes! Not that the
The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . or and amazement, to the column of General Gibbs did not advance after the fallof their leader. Leaving heaps of slain behind them, they,too, forsook the bloody field, rushed in utter confusionout of the fire, and took refuge at the bottom of wetditches and behind trees and bushes on the borders of the swamp The whole was like a dream. How long a time, does thereader think, elapsed between the fire of the first Americangun and the total rout of the attacking columns ? Twenty-live minutes! Not that the American fire ceased, or evenslackened at the expiration of that period. The riflemen onthe left, and the troops on the right, continued to dischargetheir weapons into the smoke that hung over the plain fortwo hours. But in the space of twenty-five minutes, the dis-comfiture of the enemy in the open field was complete. Thebattery alone still made resistance. It required two hours ofa tremendous cannonade to silence its great guns, and driveits defenders to the rear.—J.
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