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Updated: June 14, 2025
I was not sorry, therefore, when I found myself once more in the stern sheets of the barge, with our brass six-pounder loaded with grape, pointed towards them. The poor fellows little knew the effect of a shower of grape-shot, or they would not have been so anxious for a "turn-up." The sultan had offered a house for the accommodation of the Europeans during our stay at Bruni.
A path ran along the top of the embankment to the platform on which the gun was mounted. It was a six-pounder muzzle-loader. Leonard unhooked the rammer and ran it down the muzzle. "She is loaded," he said; "now let us swing her round." They did so easily enough, bringing the muzzle down upon the Nest camp; then they entered the little hut which stood alongside.
The sailors then picked up the drag-ropes and romped in with this most effective six-pounder at full speed, as if they were having the greatest fun of their lives. Wolfe was standing next to the Louisbourg Grenadiers, who, this time, were determined not to begin before they were told.
The fort is very badly situated in the hollow of a plain, and so surrounded by fine hills that it is entirely commanded. It consists of a single sod wall about two feet thick and five high, capped with loose stones, whilst at two of the corners stand, on raised platforms, a six-pounder and a three-pounder Whitworth gun.
A big strong man like you, and that poor little fish " "Not little at all! It's a good six-pounder," protested the fisherman, quick to defend his sport against depreciation. "No he's not dead yet, but he soon will be. I will just " "Wait! Wait! Let me get out of the way." Margot flew with her fingers in her ears, then pulled them out to cry "Is it done? Is it over? Can I come back?"
Round and grape shot from the American batteries were searching the banks and scourging the village, while shells from mortars at short range came singing across the river. He saw a boat with fifteen American soldiers smashed in mid-stream by a six-pounder from Dennis's battery, and watched the mangled bodies drift into the gloom.
Colonel Price pressed on up the river as fast as possible, passing San Juan, and at Los Luceros, on the 28th, his little army was rejoiced at the arrival of reinforcements, consisting of a mounted company of cavalry, Captain Burgwin's company, which had been pushed up by forced marches on foot from Albuquerque, and a six-pounder brought by Lieutenant Wilson.
By the flash of the re-loaded six-pounder, we saw the trench filled with dead and wounded. The besiegers turned. Croghan's sweating gunners swabbed and loaded and fired, roaring like lions. The Indians, of whom there were nearly a thousand, were not in the charge, and when retreat began they went in panic.
"Give her a blank shot," ordered Captain Boldwood, and the words had barely left his mouth before the forward six-pounder gun had roared out its summons to halt; but the stranger paid no heed. A solid shot, well elevated, had as little effect. By this time the despatch-boat was rushing ahead at full speed in the direction the unknown steamer was supposed to have taken.
It was here that Muir, with 200 regulars and militia and less than 200 Indians, instead of waiting to be attacked, recklessly assailed a force of 600 Americans who were halted on the edge of the oak forest, supported by two six-pounder guns.
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