ially sheltered by an adjoining wood. The British, nevertheless,
charged the battery and captured it, the enemy leaving about sixty
wounded men behind them, in their hurried retreat. The stores in the
fort were taken possession of, the fort itself dismantled, and the
barracks were destroyed. In this successful assault, Captain Holtaway,
of the Marines, was killed, Captain Mulcaster was severely and
dangerously wounded in the head, and Captain Popham was wounded
severely, two officers of the line and two other naval officers were
wounded. Eighteen rank and file of the army and marines were killed,
and sixty wounded, and three sailors were killed and seven wounded. The
naval stores, however, were not captured, as they had been deposited at
the Falls of the Onondago, some miles above Oswego. The troops were
re-embarked and the fleet sailed for Kingston on the 7th of May.

Sir James Yeo being still very anxious about the naval stores which the
enemy were so industriously collecting at Sackett's Harbour, determined
to try if possession of at least a part of them could not be obtained.
Accordingly, he blockaded Sackett's Harbour, and on the morning of the
29th of May, a boat belonging to the enemy, laden with a cable large
enough for a ship of war, and with two twenty-four pounders, forming
one of a flotilla of sixteen boats from Oswego, containing naval and
military stores, was intercepted and captured. Captains Popham and
Spilsbury, having with them two gun-boats and five barges, were
immediately sent in search of the other boats. They soon learned where
the missing boats were. Fearing capture, the Americans had taken
shelter in Sandy Creek. It was resolved to root them out, if possible,
and accordingly the British gun-boats and barges entered the Creek.
Captains Popham and Spilsbury immediately looked about them, and found
the enterprise to be rather hazardous. The creek was narrow and
winding. An attack was, nevertheless, determined upon. For about half a
mile the assailants proceeded cautiously up the creek, when, as they
turned its elbow, the enemy's boats were in full view. The troops
immediately landed on both banks and were advancing when the
sixty-eight pounder carronade in the foremost boat was disabled, and it
was necessary to bring the twenty-four pounder in the stern of the boat
to bear upon the enemy. But no sooner had an effort been made to get
the boat round than the enemy took it into their heads that the
at