om the ranks of Washington on the land side of
that fort. This detachment did not appear in time; for when Clinton
discovered this reverse he sent a detachment up the river, in
transports, to assist the garrison, and their arrival occurred almost
simultaneously. On the arrival of the transports, the Americans gave
up their brief siege of Fort Lafayette, and retreated, as did those
likewise who had retaken Stoney-point. Clinton himself had followed the
transports in full force, hoping that Washington would quit his position
to defend Stoney-point; but when he found that his hope was fallacious
he returned to New York.

BRITISH GARRISON SURPRISED AT PAULUS-HOOK.

The successful enterprise of General Wayne was followed by a similar
enterprise against a British garrison at Paulus-hook on the Jersey
coast. This was conducted by General Lee, who, on the 17th of July, fell
suddenly upon that garrison, and killed about thirty and captured one
hundred and sixty prisoners. The Americans, however, were speedily
expelled from Paulus-hook, without having destroyed either the barracks
or artillery. Their retreat was as disgraceful as their attack had been
spirited and well conducted.

AMERICAN DISASTER AT PENOBSCOT.

During the month of June, General Francis Maclean, who commanded the
British troops in Nova Scotia, proceeded with a detachment of six
hundred and fifty men in transports, conveyed by three sloops of war, to
the Bay of Penobscot, in order to form a settlement, and to establish a
post which might serve the double purpose of checking the incursions
of the people of Massachusets Bay into Nova Scotia; and to obtain
ship-timber for the use of the king's yards at Halifax and other ports
in America, He had already commenced the construction of a fort on the
Penobscot River, when a hostile armament, consisting of 3000 troops,
which had been fitted out by the executive government of Massachusets,
appeared in the bay to thwart his designs. Being prevented from entering
the harbour by the presence of the three English sloops of war, which
were anchored right across the mouth; on the night of the 28th of June,
the American troops climbed up some steep precipices on the opposite
side of that tongue of land; dragged up some artillery, and erected a
battery within a few hundred yards of the unfinished fort. But Maclean
was prepared for this manouvre. He had filled up his bastions with logs
of timber; had carried a sort