The attack of one was committed to the Americans, and of the other to the French.

The Marquis de Lafayette commanded the American detachment, and the Baron de Viominel the French.

Towards the close of the day, the two detachments marched with equal firmness to the assault.

Colonel Hamilton, who had commanded a battalion of light infantry throughout this campaign, led the advanced corps of the Americans; and Colonel Laurens turned the redoubt at the head of eighty men, in order to take the garrison in reverse, and intercept their retreat.

The troops rushed to the charge without firing a gun and without giving the sappers time to remove the abattis and palisades.