Lieutenant William Horndon, Royal Artillery

" I was the Officer of artillery on the 15th of July who, in case of Alarm, was to take charge of the Guns in the works along the Outward Abbatis. I visited them at the in the evening . . . after which I retired to my tent. As soon as the first shot was fired, . . I immediately repaired to the work on the left of the outward line of defense. Soon after I arrived, I heard a great firing of musketry from right to left, and consequently began firing the 12 pounder to a particular object, to which we were ordered to point this gun, in case of an alarm.

By the light occasioned by the flash of the gun, I could perceive a body of them [the American south column] coming through the water upon the left. I attempted to bring the gun to bear upon them, but could effect it, the embrazure being too confined. The number of men in the battery where I was, having by stragglers coming in, increased to twenty-seven, exclusive of my own four of artillery, two of which I had sent for a supply of ammunition, and with them I commened a musketry fire. Soon after, we heard a Huzza in the Upper Works, from which I conceived that the enemy were in possession of those works, and I was the more convinced of it from the men I had sent for ammunition not returning."

Horndon and his men surrendered to Lt. Col. Francois de Fleury, a French volunteer serving in the Continental Army.