to cannonade the Town; but it was soon found, she could not come
hear enough to do any Service; for the enemy had demolished her so, in
two or three Hours, that she would have sunk in half an Hour more, if
she had not been drawn off; and it may be established as a general
Rule, for Ships to go by, that unless they can come within half a
Musket or Pistol Shot of a Fortification, it will have the Advantage of
them, for the further you lye off, the more Guns they can bring to bear
against you; whereas, when you go so near, there can no more Guns annoy
you, than are mounted within the Length of your Ship; and the
Difference of Briskness in firing, betwixt a Ship and a Fort, is so
great, besides the Odds in Number of Guns, that it is impossible to
withstand a Ship long. After this Experiment the _Galicia_ was burned.

[_I_] After the famous Battle of _St. Lazare_, the Troops sickened very
fast, insomuch, that by Account delivered in (and the General's Report)
between _Thursday_ Morning and _Friday_ Night, they had dwindled away
from 6645 to 3200, and 1200 of these were _Americans_, and not esteemed
fit for Service.

[_K_] When the Council of War agreed to the Forces being embarked, the
General urged, that they might come off in the Night, lest the Enemy
should make a Sortie, so that the Boats were ordered ashore about nine
o'Clock, and from the Apprehensions they were in of the Enemy's being
at their Heels, many of them left their Baggage, and Numbers of them
their Tents and Arms, which the Enemy came the next Morning and picked
up. The Tents they pitched upon _St. Lazare_ Hill, and other Places,
where they might best be seen, and by a Flag of Truce that had Occasion
to pass the next Day, about Exchange of Prisoners, they failed not to
express their Astonishment at the precipitate Retreat of the Army. Thus
ended this famous Expedition, that was the greatest and most expensive
that ever entered the _American_ Seas, and which _Europe_ gazed on with
Admiration and Attention.

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