. The Hessians and the other German auxiliaries of Great Britain in the revolutionary war . the river. Here were postedSimcoes rangers, Tarletons dragoons, Ewalds chas-seurs, and an English regiment. Opposed to themwere more than a thousand Frenchmen under Choisyand de Lauzun, and twelve or fifteen hundred militiaunder General Weedon. Tarleton and Simcoe haddiscarded the use of carbines by their cavaliy, and thisaided in their discomfiture. On the morning of the3d of October it was reported to Lauzun that therewere English dragoons outside the works of to reconnoitre, he s
. The Hessians and the other German auxiliaries of Great Britain in the revolutionary war . the river. Here were postedSimcoes rangers, Tarletons dragoons, Ewalds chas-seurs, and an English regiment. Opposed to themwere more than a thousand Frenchmen under Choisyand de Lauzun, and twelve or fifteen hundred militiaunder General Weedon. Tarleton and Simcoe haddiscarded the use of carbines by their cavaliy, and thisaided in their discomfiture. On the morning of the3d of October it was reported to Lauzun that therewere English dragoons outside the works of to reconnoitre, he saw a pretty woman atthe door of a small house by the roadside. Lauzunwould not have been Lauzun if he had passed a prettywoman unquestioned. She informed him that ColonelTarleton had just been at her house, and desired verymuch to shake hands with the French duke. Iassured her, says Lauzun, that I had come on pur-pose to give him that satisfaction. She pitied memuch, thinking, I suppose, from experience, that it wasimpossible to resist Tarleton; the American troopswere in the same THE SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN OF 1781. 279 Presently the French and English dragoons raised his pistol and approached single combat was imminent, when Tarletons horsefell. The English dragoons covered the escape oftheir colonel, but his horse was taken by Lauzun.* The loth of October was marked by a deed of Cochrane had left New York in a small vesselwith despatches for Lord Cornwallis. He arrived atChesapeake Bay in broad daylight, ran the gantlet ofthe French fleet, which fired briskly at him, and reachedYorktown in safety. This brave man had, however,seen the last of his good fortune. Two days after hisarrival he pointed a gun with his own hands. As helooked over the parapet to see the effect of his shot,his head was carried off by a cannon-ball. Lord Corn-wallis was standing by his side, and narrowly escapedsharing his On the night of the nth of October the
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