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 must have been an officer. This sword, however, the vetrean general seized and wrested from him before he could affect his destruction: and at the same moment, this daring assailant was bayoneted by a private of the 42d. Sir Ralph only complained of a contusion in his breast, supposed to have been given, in the scuffle, by the hilt of the sword, but was entirely ignorant of the moment he received the wound in his thigh, which occasioned his death. After this wound, Sir Sidney Smith was the first officer that came to the general, and from him received that sword which the latter had so gloriously acquired from the French officer. The cause of this present was the general's observation, that Sir Sidney's sword had been broken.

About ten in the forenoon the action was terminated; while Sir Ralph Abercromby never quitted the battery he retired to. But as he continued walking about, many officers had no suspicion of his being wounded, but from the blood trickling down his clothes. At length getting faint, he was put in a hammock, and conveyed to a boat, which carried him on board Lord Keith's ship, being accompanied by his friend Sir Thomas Dwyer. The battle was fought by the right of the English alone. The whole British army reduced by the actions on the 8th and 13th, by the men left care of the wounded, the absence of the 92d regiment the marines and dismounted dragoons, did not yield the effective force of 10,000 men including 300 cavalry; yet it must be remembered that it was only the half this number that contests with the whole united force of the enemy. The field of battle in front of the British works being very contracted the killed and wounded presented a distressing spectacle. Near 1700 French and 400 horses were found on the field.