The Virginia Gazette

From Fort Chartres we learn that Captain Gordon Forbes, of the 34th regiment, who commands at the Illinois, had collected a vast quantity of stones, with which he had built a dry wall to support the bank of the Mississippi, for upwards of 200 yards, in the front of the fort. This has been found to answer the design, and it is not doubted but that valuable fortress will be preserved, to the lasting honour of Captain Forbes. The handful of soldiers of which his garrison consisted, animated by the zeal of their commander, seemed to vie with each other who should contribute most to so important an undertaking, and without which part of the fort would have been inevitably carried away last summer by the Mississippi.