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Show REVIEW (f flu WAR. ImI‘W‘E‘PHYOOFS flownel's which they polTelled in common with other Brunfwick employed. regiments, they were loaded with accoutrements that rendered them additionally clumly. Their very hats and iivords weigh» ed more than the whole equipment of one of odr foldiers, Yet there poor devils did you pitch upon for aflying expedition thro ‘ ' the woods, for the fagacious purpolh of mounting them cu: Dawn's Chaney... on itorles, in a country where cavalry (:onid not be nibd. The coininnnd oftliis expedition was given to Colonel Baum, "1v'c1"aii a d gornl oilicer in his way, but juft as much qualilied for thin: fort oi" icrvice as an Indian Chictiwould be for the commando an army in Flanders. He neither had, nor ‘ouid be exoo‘ted to have, an idea of the nature otiAnaei‘iczm warfare; he did not even :xudzrihmd a 1?. llzible ol‘tlic language of the people whole afii'ctions you {cutihirn to try. The event \as juft what might be expct'lcd from inch 3 plan. l‘he country people finding to finall a detachment at to great a difiance from the army, flocked in from all quarters to furround it, while poor Baum, totally ignorant of the country, the people, and the language, hardly knew whether they Were allhrnbling as friends or toes. He however difpatched intelligence of this tiling. to you, and you now perceived the confequences with which your deepdaid {chemo was about to be attended. The only poihble chance of retrieving the blunder, and preventing the detachment from being cut ofl‘, was to fend forward the lighteft and In lztll both parties feemed tired of the conflié‘t--for thev both re-‘ Bulh Partil'srl'n treated at tn»: fame inlhint, the Germans lcavinrr their Cannon, which the rebels did not take pollb behind them ""3" "VG" llion of till tour mm "mm n" days alter the engageme nt. "hi'w} ti"? W' Thus ended this unfortunate afiinr, whic h almoli ini'tantanc- Ms W 4 days. oull y darkened the profpcc‘t ot‘the 1. 'hole camp killed, wounded, and prilbncrs, little lel‘s aign. \Ve loli in than it thoulitnd mcn. l'he Indians began 1mmed1ately to dcfert. The loyalifts Were dilheart ened, while the rebels were eluted bevond mciif ure and totally forgot the terror with which you had at tirli inlzpircd them. They even conceived the 111(‘ilib(>i itcm}itiblc opinion of your talents as an ofliccr, and filled their papers with the mod iatirical reflections on your orders to Colonel Baum, which they faid betrayed a want of military {kill that one. of their militia colonels would have been alliamed to tlilbtini‘. To all New mode 0; this, what do you and your friends anl‘wer E why, that it wasjutzficariunu entirely the fault of the Germans, who did not marc h lb felt as you expected they would have done. Good God! Sir, do you and your witnefles mean to trifle with the common fem'e of mankind P, we all blame the Germans, but mull we there fore acquit you, who, with an abl‘urdity bordering on madn cli, pitched upon thole very Germans in preference to all the other troops in your army P that would be to make your crime the in- flruinent of yourjuiiilication. ., moll expeditious troops in your army, who by mere dint of quick marching might perhaps arrive before the enemy {hould lind it expedient to commence their attack. But you feem politively to have abjurcd the guidance of rea. {on throughout the whole of this ti.‘anfa€ti011. For you, a fecond time made choice of the Germans, who pofleflbd no one had mifitdeu. qualification that fuch a duty required. Did you really believe, Sir, that they would march to Bennington in a {horter time than any e ual number of Britifll troops in your army? did, REVIEW of in WAR. It is a lingular and convincing proof of the weak and dil1 Ee‘iantnryn.‘ tracted llatc of our councils, and of the power of the reigningi'hlulhiiell‘vfll" factions, when notorious public delinquents, who have entailed upon us an enormous additional debt, who have loaded us with national dilhonour, who have plunged us into a French you not know, on the contrary, that the worft Britifh regiment and Spanilh war, not only el‘cape with impunity, but are heard in the fervice, would with cafe march two miles for their one P was not the choice of them then a voluntary and a wanton ficrilice or the detachment which you pretended to lend them to relieve .9 the Germans proceeded exaétly as every man in the camp knew and expected that they would. They halted ten times an hour to dre'fs their ranks, which were liable to be with patient fubmifiion in the fenatc, declaim on their own me- broken at every {lcp in limb a road as they had to march by. You knew this to be their comiant praciice, and therefore had no realbn to be aftoniihed at it on this occafion. The confev quence was, that they arrived jui‘c time enough to be attacked by the virftorious rebels, fiulhed with their conquelt over the unfoztmiute Baum. Colonel Breyman made a gallant Rand, notwith{landing the advzvntarge the rebels had got by occupying the hills, at the. toot orwhish he was obliged to march. At left rits, and arraign that country for ill treatment, which they, by their bafe and miferable conduct have undone. Such tameb nefs in us, is the laft and melt wretched liage of national humiliation : In them, to ruin a people, and call for their praife, is the highell pitch of daring infult and impudcnt mahgnity. But to leave the crowd of delinquents to the confblations and flatteries of oppofition, Sir \Villiam Howe (hell be my object. This man, who has brought a name formerly honoured into Lois. lwy defioifcontempt, wantonly {acrificed a thoufand of our bravefi men arm: "WinonBunker's Hill, by defpifing the lituation of the enemy. and re- jeéting the fimplefi and eafieft of all manoeuvres, that oflanding on their left from Myftic River. and taking poll on the heights T above A ACTION I/em' BENNINGTOH. a"; irkehc 9"- .3. 1.1.4. :44, |