ch and American standards were planted on the
parapet, but they were soon hurled from thence. The fire of the redoubt
and the batteries being aided by a well-posted armed brig flanking the
right of the British lines, made the whole column stagger and reel like
drunken men; and Colonel Maitland, seizing the critical moment, issued
forth with a mixed corps of grenadiers and marines, and charged them at
the point of the bayonet. This charge decided the contest. The French
and Americans were driven far beyond the ditch, leaving behind them
about nine hundred killed and wounded; while, on the part of the
English, there were only fifty-five killed, wounded, and missing.
D'Estaing himself was wounded, as were also several French officers of
rank, and the Polish Count Pulawski here finished his career. The issue
of this battle determined the siege: the allies immediately separated,
the provincials retiring to their homes, and the French setting sail
for the West Indies. D'Estaing had scarcely embarked when his fleet
was dispersed by a storm; and while some reached their destination, the
rest, with the count himself, sailed for France.

BRITISH INCURSIONS INTO VIRGINIA.

During the operations in Georgia, the British fleet under Sir George
Collier, who had succeeded Admiral Gambier, had been attacking Virginia,
in which attack he was aided by a detachment of soldiers under General
Matthews. Their first attempt was an expedition to the Chesapeak, where
they demolished Fort Nelson, the grand defence of the American dock-yard
at Gos-port; and a similar scene of destruction was exhibited at the
town of Suffolk, Kempe's Landing, Tanner's Creek, and other places in
the lower part of the district. At the same time, the "Otter" sloop, and
the privateers sailing far up the bay, took a great number of prizes,
and burned, or caused the Americans themselves to burn, a great number
of vessels. In the end, indeed, scarcely any American craft were left
floating on these waters. The last exploit of this expedition was to
demolish the fort and destroy the navy-yard of Portsmouth; when Collier
and Matthews returned to New York, after an absence of only twenty-four
days.

CAPTURE OF STONEY-POINT AND VERPLANKS.

A few days after the arrival of Collier and Matthews at New York,
another detachment, under General Vaughan, and accompanied by Sir Henry
Clinton himself, proceeded up the Hudson against Verplanks-neck, and
Stoney-point, wher