1st regiment
came up, and having passed the night in bright anticipations of glory,
the rescuing gun-boats proceeded at three in the morning to Goose
Creek. The enemy had gone well up and had judiciously entrenched
themselves behind logs, while they had adopted the Russian plan of
blocking up the entrance to their harbor where the Creek became so
narrow that the attacking gun-boats found it necessary to pole up even
that far. Lieutenant Scott set his men to work, to remove the barriers
to his ingress, but a brisk fire soon caused him to desist, and indeed
he was very nearly disabled. The only gun-boat that could be brought to
bear upon the enemy was already disabled, and the consequences might
have been disastrous but for the gallant conduct of the soldiers, who
leaped from the sternmost boats, up to their necks, carrying their
muskets high overhead, and charged the enemy on landing, causing them
to retreat with precipitation behind their entrenchment. While this was
being done, the gun-boats were got afloat and put to rights, and the
soldiers expeditiously re-embarking the re-capture of the provisions
was abandoned. Captain Milnes, a volunteer aid-de-camp to the Commander
of the Forces, was killed.

A second boat expedition from Kingston failed, Sir James Yeo, conceived
that he might out cut of Sackett's Harbour the new American ship
_Pike_, the equipment of which Commodore Chancey was superintending. He
arrived at the mouth of the harbor, but the enemy having accidentally
heard of his errand, Sir James abandoned a scheme that could only have
been effected by surprise. In July, the American fleet appeared on the
lake with augmented force. Colonel Scott, with a company of artillery
and a considerable number of other soldiers was on board, _en route_
for Burlington Heights. He was most anxious to destroy the British
stores there, the more especially as the place was only occupied by
Major Maule, at the head of a small detachment of regulars.
Lieutenant-Colonel Harvey, the Deputy Adjutant-General of the army,
shrewdly suspecting the design of the enemy, despatched Colonel
Battersby from York, who arrived in time to re-inforce Maule. Scott
made no attack, but with the advice, or at all events, the concurrence
of the commodore, did a much wiser thing. The expedition sailed upon
York, which Lieutenant-Colonel Battersby had evacuated to save
Burlington. A landing was effected at York, of course, without
opposition; the store