Page:The American Revolution (scriptural style).djvu/215



American Revolution, 509

^people whom he had defpifed, were ftronger than he.

11. Furthermore, theballs from the deflroy- Ing engines were Ihot into his camp; they came from the North and from the South, from the Eaft and from the Well; for the people of the Provinces occupied all the ave- nues that led to the camp, and there was no way to efcape.

12. And while the chief captain w^as rumi« nating upon thefe things with Phillips and Reidesd by his fide, chief captains and his companions in the w^ar; lo 1 the dead body of his friend, with whom he ufed to take fweet counfel, whofe fur-name was Frazier, was borne upon the fhoulders of the fervants of his houfhold :

13. They were carrying him to the high place, called in the language of the men of Britain, the Great Redoubt, the burying- place he had chofen for himfelf,

S 2 *