At that place, it was intended to remain, until reinforcements of men, and supplies of provisions, should arrive.
{July 2.} {Third.} [Sidenote: Capitulation of fort Necessity.] {Fourth.} In pursuance of this advice, Colonel Washington returned to fort Necessity, and began a ditch around the stockade.

Before it was completed, the French, amounting to about fifteen hundred men, commanded by Monsieur de Villier, appeared before the fort, and immediately commenced a furious attack upon it.

They were received with great intrepidity by the Americans, who fought partly within the stockade, and partly in the surrounding ditch, which was nearly filled with mud and water.

Colonel Washington continued the whole day on the outside of the fort, encouraging the soldiers by his countenance and example.

The assailants fought under cover of the trees and high grass, with which the country abounds.