Western Sun, Volume 6, Number 8, Vincennes, Knox County, 20 August 1814 — Page 4

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From the Buffalo Gazette, Extra, of July 28, 1814. T v i i f r ik Hninr.FWATrp M p k n Niagara FAILS.

On he 25th inft. the army under the command or major i 00, exclufive of 200 regu-

4eM. Brown, encamped above Chippewa, near the battle rs, anJ 20 omcers pnloners ground of the jih. At 4 p in. information was received, ; Our Ms in killed, wounded that the enemy had thrown a body of troops acrofs the Nia- j and miffing, is from 6 to 700 gara, at the 5 mile meadows ; but our commanding general major M Far I and, 2id, capt was not diverted by this movement. The firft brigade und Uitehe, artillery, caprs. Kin er brig. gen. Scot rf moved pad Chippewa, and halted at ney and Goodrich, It. BigeBridaewater, a mile below Chippewa, and in plain view of low, inf. and feverai other of

hi iacara falls. Gen. cott learnt that the Britilh iorcc under , "ters wuieu ; capt. opcucci,

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m. tr.c.r cannon were piacca aoout 200 rous noiu uu: p mtion, on an eminence, 'i tic enemy's numeric a! force was much fupettor to gen. Scott's ; his line was far extended and t Ihe ed an intention to flank ; in order to counteract tbefe Views of Hen. K'ulL he was fought in detachments he was Charged in column ; gen Scott being ?t the head of his troops rv dmoil every charge. Capt, 1'owfofl, with his company

The lofs of the enemy injber. The letters alfo flat?,

naj gen. Rial!, was approaching him 5 battle was immedi- aid to gen. Brown, fuppoied telv riven the enemy, near mrs. Wilfon's. at half paii five ! to be mortally wounded ;

major stanron, or i . 1. yui adj. Pew, Pa. vol. killed maji Camp, of the fluff, lofl two horfes on the field, but efcaped a wound- 1 he oth, I Ith and 25th, iuffered very

ieverely.

Atftillery, attached to gen. Scott 8 brigade, kept up his fire with vigor and effeft. The action was continued, and the ground maintained bjf gen. Stott, for more than an hour, before the referve under gen. Ripley, and the volunteers und ci gen. Porter, were fuccelsfully brought into a)ion i he ground was obftinately tontcfted Until pail 9 o'clock In the evening ; when gen. Brown perceiving that the enemya artillery was fttoft deUruclive, he decided to florm the

battery ; col. Miller, the hero ofMaguaga, was ordered on

uterprite J he approached the enemy': cannon with a

lick Rep, 2nd delivered hh fire within a few paces of th

1 he enemy's troops, who made a dafh at Lewillovvn,

that the frames of the two brigs for lake Champlain, brought from England, (and not tvo frigates for Ontario, as announced in the public papers) would not be fet up, on account ot their drawing: too much water. Cbilticotbe, August 6. By letters from the commanding officers at Detroit and Maiden, dated the twenty firfl ult. we learn, that a reconnoitring party under the command of It, O. Hartifoo, of the twenty eighth inf. detached to Poi :i t an Plait, were attacked near that place by a body of Indians on ti e

15th ult, and in confequenco

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nt rhrir hnnr hino ormnprl

rove away the guard under . j , - ' to our nrii tv vvrv - fit t rfrt , ttn

the lois of 9 men killed and 4 wounded. Among the killed was the gallant and emerpri fmg commander of t he cc-

co!. swift, took a fmall quan

lit y of baggage, and the ef feds of feverai lut tiers, killed one of the volunteers, and recrofled the river, and fome of them were in the aciion.

tachmenr, It. Haniiun. 1 h5 dead vveic afterwards collec

f Ocr Buffalo correfoondent ' ted by a P-rt' ' 60

honorably interred at foi r

enemy's line ; who after receiving two or three rounds, andFY Covinpton.

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We learn from fort Green

vilie, that an exprtfs arrived

a vigorous charge, retreated to the bottom of the hill, ancki r .. "li as Tallin abandoned his cannon. U;i!y ' e piece was bt oup!:t off the . . , 1 tL 1 1 q and is the field tor the want cl hork-5. 1 ne enemy now jravc way c:

enemy now gave waj

retreated ; they were followed fome dilrjnce. Our t(rmy Waft how employed in fecuring priionetli and bringing ot the wounded I he ceffation, however, vva fhort hi. pen. Drummond if fuppoied to h e an i d at tins interval with a reinforce tnent I he enemy renewed the action, while our troops were k , bulily employed in cleat log the ground of wounded ; but the v diant Americans foftfted With alacrity, and after a dole

ngagettient oi 20 minutes of the enemy w ere repulleJ. i (m

ii inv now effected the removal cr nearly, i nor ail, of th

back upon fort trie

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r x 1 1 l thereon I hu (day lull from lays, he has a letter rrom sac- 1 r , . , n , I c . , , , Detroit, which Hates, that 1 kett s hai boi or the 2o?h ijIv, , . , c . . v , a . r ,J detachment of militia which Yeo s Meet was in I12.U ot tl,e rt . . .Pl , , , h , A i was lent to the river rhames

uie port on 10619111. .jurs would fail on the twenty firft, and cxpedt to fight that day. The two fleets were abdjt equal. A molt fanguinary

onfiirt would no doubt take

c'clock at night ; they s c turned to their encampment in good order On the morning of the 26th, our forces under gen. Ripley and Porterg reconnoitcred the enemy near the battleground, returned, rud burnt the BHdgewatef mills, and all the bar facki and the bridge at Chippewa, or.d pafied up the river 0 fort Ivic, where they made a ftanu, v 1 he enefti) I force engaged mull have been nearly 50001 ljj urs (hort o that number. Maj. gn. Kiall was wounded, snd taken In the rear of his army, by captain kctchum, toge thcr with one of his aids, the other being killed. It would be impoffibie to put the action of the 25th on paper. ConHdering the numbers engaged, the hiltory or modern wars vill i'Tarcely produce a p a r a 1 1 e 1 . lhe a!mi ration of this nation will follow thole who fought, thole who bled, and thole who fel!-tO their graves ; their numbers will jullly be a Ided to that brilliant catalogue (;f worthies, the heroes of the f evolution ; and the battle of Bridgewateri will Sbe remembered, by polterity, with tle fame fenfations as thofe of Bunker Hill and Saratoga. Maj gen. firown vas (eerely wounded in the thigh, rbe fides a contofion on his body) in tha hotted ol the action, but eontinued to command until the enemy retreated Brigadier gen scott, was alio (everety wounded by a grape in the fhoutder, befidesa levere bruirc occa (toned by a f 1 1 a 1 1 or can ion (hot, having loft two horfes killtd. Co!. Brady, 22d li fi rnajs. Itilup, 25th, Leavenworth, 6th, MfMeil, tub, brigade mjj. smith, lieutt Campbell, Smou th, artillery, It. Vvorth, aid to gen S'cott, It. Camp, lttbf together with irnnv others, wh.ofj names vc luve nut leanut were woun ded, fome badiy.

wounded, and retired rroni the ground, it being nearly 1 2yJrm 1 , m

Albany, July 29. We have converted with a gentleman who left sackett's harbor on sundy the twenty fourth. The fiVet was in port; com. Chauncy's health was improving. A Britilh mail from Kingftoh to Nion treat had been taken and brought to the liaibor, con taining 60 or 70 letters. Our informant (aw fome of tlKlt letters, which were writl by (hip carpenters to their triends in Quebec and ting land They Hated that it was

very fickly, &; that provih

were fearce at Kingfion ;

that the Britilh force on thd lake was inferior to the Yn kee's and that the former would not leave the uoi t that it was intended the new

fhip (defined to carry one

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iund j ed nd t v o g u n s lh o u 1 oVJ be ready fjr lea in hx weekT

to reconnoitre, had arrived at Detroit with a number of prifoners, the baggage of 60 men, and nearly 60 hornrs. I he circmnflances as flare I

are, that the detachmei t

went to the river Thames, agreed to flunk out to the 1 ig t and left of the road, me z again at a certain time and place which they did. C 1 their ai rival at the place appointed, they difcovcred thai a number of ho. fes l:ad pall d towards Detroit; they purfued them and came up with them in the evcrdng when they were encamping. It being latein the evening, & the enemy fuperior in number. hcv retired ck encamped till morning, hen our troops advanced, attacked the enemy in the Camp, and took or d ftroyed the whole ol their de

tachment, faidcoconfft oi 60

Iragoons well mounted and

equipt. OhioRepablicaa. THE WORLD, A man feidom aflecls to difpife the world, unlefs iho

world Is reaardlefs of him.

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in or teptetnoerj out tne writers gave it as their opinion, that fh.e could not be got ready before the III of Qclo

FROM THE I' B E 3S OF j;. STOUT. PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.