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MG-A(G.762.039
28 Oct 1762:12 (912)
[In account of battle at St. John's, Newfoundland under
Colonel Amherst:] . . . The 16th [of September] the troops
were ordered to move their camp, and occupy a ground about
200 yards in the read of our mortar battery. --From our
landing, and through all our movements and manoeuvres, the
Colonel was indefatigable; and by his singular attention to
every thing going on, and the alertness of Capt. Ferguson,
they got thirteen mortars (of one kind or another) ready by
the 17th at night; and they began to play from them about
eleven o'clock, and did not cease diverting the Monsieurs in
the fort till about ten o'clock next morning, when a drum
was heard, and an officer marching towards one of our out-
posts where he was stopped till Col. Amherst was acquainted.
He immediately sent me to know his business; when I came up
to him, he told me he wanted to see our commandant, and gave
me a letter for the colonel: . . .
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