with the aſſiſtance of the few ſoldlers, ſome of whom were of the artillery, they greatly incommoded the enemy while landing at point Michael, by firing from all the batteries which they occupied.
Theſe were, however, ia a very bad ſtate; the gun-carriages were all rotten, ſo that after two or three diſcharges the wheels were broken to pieces. The cannon in Melville's battery eſpecially, where the moſt execution was done, being in that ſituation, were afterwards obliged to be laid on the parapets, there loaded, and fired off. Beſides, in this fort they were obliged to load the cannon with looſe powder, there being none of it made up into cartridges; and the cartridges that were uſed there were fetched by the militia from fort Young, which is upwards of half a mile diſtant from the other. Nevertheleſs, what with the firing from this fort, and from two field-pieces on a point of land juſt under it, the French troops
