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The Virginia Gazette
Williamsburg, Virginia
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Report from St. Vincents via Captain Henshaw: General Leybourne left for Grenada, Col. Dalrymple commands troops surrounding Indians expected to surrender. Captain Read's boat capsized, drowning 18 soldiers; Indians attacked survivors, killing 3 and wounding a sergeant, but Captain Stanton and the sergeant repelled them, hoisting English colors.
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By Captain Henshaw, from St. Vincents, we are informed that General Leybourne was gone to Grenada, and the command of the troops devolved on Col. Dalrymple, who had entirely surrounded the Indians, and it was imagined the greatest part of them would be made prisoners, as they never had testified the least willingness of engaging the soldiers in any other manner than in scouting parties; that Captain Read's boat in going ashore with Captain Stanton and 25 men, overset, by which accident 18 soldiers were drowned; that the Indians from behind a little eminence fired upon and wounded a sergeant, and killed 3 men that were saved from the waves, but that Captain Stanton and the sergeant behaved with so much resolution, notwithstanding the latter was wounded in three places, that the Indians soon gave way and took to the woods, when Captain Stanton immediately hoisted English colours, and kept possession of the ground the enemy abandoned.
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St. Vincents
Event Date
February 8
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18 soldiers drowned; 3 men killed by indians; sergeant wounded in three places; indians retreated; english colors hoisted and ground held.
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General Leybourne gone to Grenada, command to Col. Dalrymple who surrounded Indians expected to be captured. Captain Read's boat overset with Captain Stanton and 25 men, drowning 18. Indians fired from eminence, wounding sergeant and killing 3 saved from waves. Stanton and wounded sergeant repelled Indians who fled to woods; possession kept.