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Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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Passengers from Martinique report French forces at Point a Petre in Guadaloupe capturing an English mortar battery by surprise assault on the third attempt, killing the sleeping English guards, despite English requests for relief and under-equipped forts.
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Some passengers arrived here yesterday from Martinique, which place they left. All the precautions taken by the English to hide what passes at Guadaloupe, they learnt to the 4th inst. report, that notwithstanding the French had fifteen hundred troops of the line and two hundred cannoneers at Point a Petre. That the English had sent times to Martinique for relief; that their forts were almost totally unfurnished; that the English, having established a battery of three mortars on a hill, from whence they bombarded Point a Petre, the French, after two unsuccessful attacks, carried it the third time by assault, without any other arms than words, surprising the English while asleep, at about 2 o'clock in the morning, killed all they found, and
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Guadaloupe
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To The 4th Inst.
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french captured the english battery; killed all english found asleep.
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French troops at Point a Petre, numbering 1500 of the line and 200 cannoneers, assaulted an English mortar battery on a hill after two failures, succeeding on the third by surprise at 2 a.m., using only swords, killing the sleeping English. English forts under-equipped; sought relief from Martinique.