A history of the United States of America, on a plan adapted to the capacity of youth .. . ind the hills to the north-east harbor, setting fire to allthe houses and stores, till they came within a mile of the royalbattery. The conflagration of the stores, in which was a consid-erable quantity of tar, concealed the English troops, at the sametime that it increased the alann of the French so greatly, thatthey precipitately abandoned the royal battery. Upon theirflight, the English took possession of it, and, by means of a well-directed fire from it, seriously damaged the town. The main body of t
A history of the United States of America, on a plan adapted to the capacity of youth .. . ind the hills to the north-east harbor, setting fire to allthe houses and stores, till they came within a mile of the royalbattery. The conflagration of the stores, in which was a consid-erable quantity of tar, concealed the English troops, at the sametime that it increased the alann of the French so greatly, thatthey precipitately abandoned the royal battery. Upon theirflight, the English took possession of it, and, by means of a well-directed fire from it, seriously damaged the town. The main body of the army now commenced the siege. Forfourteen nights, they were occupied in drawing cannon towardsthe town, over a morass, in which oxen and horses could not beused. Incredible was the toil; but v.^hat could not men accom-plish, who had been accustomed to draw the pines of the forestsfor By the 20th of May, several fascine batteries had 116 PERIOD III.—1689 TO 1756, been erected, one of which mounted five forty-two opening these batteries, they did great In the mean time, Cora. Warren captured the Vigilant, aFrench ship of seventy-four guns, and with her five hundred andsixty men, together with great quantities of military capture was of great consequence, as it not only increasedthe English force, and added to their military supplies, but as itseriously lessened the strength of the enemy. Shortly after thiscapture, the number of the English fleet was considerably aug-mented by the arrival of several men-of-war. A combined at-tack by sea and land was now determined on, and fixed for the18th of June. Previously to the arrival of this additional naval force, muchhad been accomplished towards the reduction of the place. Tlieinland battery had been silenced; the western gate of the townwas beaten down, and a breach effected in the wall; the circu-lar battery of sixteen guns was nearly ruined, and the westernflank of the kings bastion was
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