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Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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From St. John's, Antigua, Feb. 25: Contradictory reports on Fort Bourbon capture in Martinique. British army assaults and captures Redoubt Bouille with 22 killed and 37 wounded; 20 enemies bayoneted. Siege continues under Grey, Dundas, White; Prescott and Myers against other sites. Bellegarde hanged; Rochambeau's surrender ignored; weak garrison fire.
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St. JOHN's (Antigua) Feb. 25.
The accounts received last week from St. Kitts, of the capture of Fort Bourbon in Martinique, are contradicted in that island, it seems, by hand bills circulating when the Mail Boat left it on Saturday.
By accounts from Montserrat, carried thither by one of the Privateers, it appears, that the British army had carried by assault, a Redoubt called Bouille, after a severe contest, in which we lost 22 killed, and 37 wounded; fifteen Mulattoes and five Whites, found there, were put to the bayonet. From this redoubt, it is said, Fort Bourbon may be battered in breach; should that be the case, we have no doubt, that our gallant countrymen will soon capture it. Fort Bourbon is attacked by 3 columns, one under Sir Charles Grey, another under General Dundas, the third under Colonel White—General Prescott commands one of the detachments acting against Gros Morne and St. Pierre, and Colonel Myers the other. Bellegarde, second in command, has been taken and hanged; and the greatest dismay prevailed in Fort Bourbon. Rochambeau talks of surrender, the garrison will not attend to it; and none will take the command of that important fortress. Our batteries play incessantly upon it, and the fire of the garrison is very weak indeed. They are principally annoyed from a Bomb battery of seventeen 24 inch Mortars.
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Martinique
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Feb. 25
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british lost 22 killed and 37 wounded; fifteen mulattoes and five whites put to the bayonet; redoubt bouille captured; bellegarde taken and hanged; rochambeau talks of surrender but garrison refuses; weak garrison fire under incessant british batteries.
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Accounts from St. Kitts contradict capture of Fort Bourbon; from Montserrat, British army assaults and captures Redoubt Bouille after severe contest. Fort Bourbon attacked by three columns under Sir Charles Grey, General Dundas, Colonel White; detachments under General Prescott and Colonel Myers against Gros Morne and St. Pierre. Greatest dismay in Fort Bourbon; batteries play incessantly, annoyed by bomb battery of seventeen 24 inch mortars.