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poſite ſhore, in order to keep the communication at that ſide open. In two days after his arrival, this ſpirited Officer defeated a conſiderable body of the enemy at a ſmall fort called Seekur, where he found a vaſt quantity of grain, which prayed an acceptable prize, as it was much wanted.
Major Popham and Captain Blair having arrived within about a mile of Pateetah, nearly at the ſame time found a party of the enemy in ſeeming readineſs to oppoſe them. They fought on both ſides, with great ardor and intrepidity, till victory perplexed with doubt, waited the arrival of Lieutenant's Fallow and Berrille, whoſe gallant conduct with
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