[The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 (of 5) by John Marshall]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 (of 5) CHAPTER V 25/56
Major Posey mounted the works almost at the same instant, and was the first to give the watch word--"The fort's our own."-- Lieutenants Gibbon and Knox performed the service allotted to them with a degree of intrepidity which could not be surpassed.
Of twenty men who constituted the party of the former, seventeen were killed or wounded. Sixty-three of the garrison were killed, including two officers.
The prisoners amounted to five hundred and forty-three, among whom were one lieutenant colonel, four captains, and twenty subaltern officers. The military stores taken in the fort were considerable.[18] [Footnote 18: The author was in the covering party, visited the fort next day, and conversed with the officers who had been engaged in storming the works.] The loss sustained by the assailants was not proportioned to the apparent danger of the enterprise.
The killed and wounded did not exceed one hundred men; General Wayne, who marched with Febiger's regiment in the right column, received a slight wound in the head which stunned him for a time, but did not compel him to leave the column.
Being supported by his aids, he entered the fort with a regiment.
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