In a very short time a small party of burghers made their appearance.

They had two field-pieces with them, and were under the command of Major Albrecht.

We placed the guns in position and trained them on the English.
With the second shot we had found our range, while the third found its mark in the wall, so that it was not long before the enemy had to abandon that shelter.

To find safe cover they were forced to retreat some hundred paces.

But we gained little by this, for the new positions of the English were quite as good as those from which we had driven them, and, moreover, were almost out of range of our guns.