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BEP(F.762.049
18 Oct 1762:22,23 (1415)
Boston, October 18. Account of the expedition against St.
John's in Newfoundland, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel
William Amherst. August 16. . .
17th. Early this morning a detachment with a working-
party was sent to a convenient hill near the fort, to throw
up an entrenchment and make a bomb battery; about evening it
was finish'd, and at half an hour after 7 o'clock the eight
inch mortar and eleven cohorns [small brass mortars] began
to play on the town, and continued till seven o'clock in the
morning of the
18th. When an officer with two drums came out of the fort
beating the chamade, and about noon the garrison surrendered
themselves prisoners of war:---. . .
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