All things
being ready, Captain Chisnall and two lieutenants issued out at the
eastern sally-port. The morning favoured their attempt, being wet and
foggy, so that before he was discovered he got completely under their
cannon, marching immediately upon the scouts where the enemy had planted
their great gun.
"It cost him a light skirmish to gain the fort; at last hee entered;
many slayne, some prisoners, and some escaping. Now by the command of
that battery, the retreate being assured, Capt Foxe seconds him w^th
much bravery, beateing upon their trenches from the easterne to the
south-west point, till hee came to the work w^ch secur'd the
morter-peece, w^ch being guarded w^th 50 men, hee found sharpe service,
forceing his way through muskett and cannon, and beateing the enemy out
of the sconce w^th stones, his muskett, by reason of the high worke,
being unserviceable. After a quarter of an houres hard service, his men
gott the trench and scal'd the rampier, where many of the enemy fledd,
the rest were slayne. The sconce, thus won, was made good by a squadron
of musketteers, which much annoyed the enemy, attempting to come upp
agayne.
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