The life of Sir William Pepperrell, bart., the only native of New England who was created a baronet during our connection with the mother country. (1856) (14593102930)

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Title: The life of Sir William Pepperrell, bart., the only native of New England who was created a baronet during our connection with the mother country.
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Parsons, Usher, 1788-1868
Subjects: Pepperrell, William, Sir, 1696-1759
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and company London, S. Low, son and company
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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or battle, anda detachment of them pulled for White Point, undercover of the armed vessels. An alarm was now soundedby the bells and cannon of the town. Captain More-pang sallied out with two companies to oppose thelanding. Having drawn the enemy to White Point,the boats retreated a little, and being joined by anotherdivision aimed for another place, two miles furtherinland, where, under cover of two armed vessels, theyeffected a landing before the French could reach them.They rushed to meet the approaching enemy, andkilled six of them, and captured others that werewounded, and among them Captain Morepang. Theremainder turned their backs and hastened to the citygarrison, burning all the houses in their way. Half thearmy were landed that day, and the remainder, withprovisions, the two following mornings. They marchedtoward the town, and encamped so near that theenemys cannon reached them, and obliged them topitch their tents further off. Pepperrell lost no time in commencing the siege.
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SIEGE AND CONQUEST OF LOUISBURG. 63 The same afternoon, May 1st, he despatched ColonelVaughn with four hundred men to the town to recon-noitre, who led his troops through the woods quite nearto the garrison, and gave three cheers, and at nightfallmarched circuitously around Green Hill, that overlookedthe garrison, to the north-east part of the harbor. Herethey set fire to ten or twelve buildings, including ware-houses, containing naval stores and a large quantity ofwine and brandy. The smoke, driven three fourths of amile toward the grand or royal battery, frightened theenemy, who supposed the whole army was coming onthem in that direction, and spiking the cannon, andthrowing the powder into a well, they fled in boats tothe town, nearly a mile distant. The next morning, Vaughn, on his return to camp incompany with thirteen men, not knowing of the paniche had occasioned, crept to the top of Green Hill, whichoverlooked the grand battery, for the purpose of learn-ing something of its sit