A Journal of the Expedition to Carthagena, with Notes; In Answers to a Late Pamphlets Entitled an Account of the Expedition to Carthagena (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1744 edition. Excerpt: ... ( ) wise the Negroes, imbarked this Day on their Transports. April the 4th, a Council of War of Land Officers was held on board the Dorsetshire Transport, wherein it was resolved, that the Troops should be landed the 5th at Break of Day; for which a Disposition having been prepared by the General, and then laid before the Members, was by them unanimously approved of. The Weymouth, the Cruizer Sloop, and two or three Fireships, kept firing, during the Night, with Grape-shot into the Woods adjoining to where the Troops were to land. April the 5th, the Troops, which were appointed first to land, amounting to about 1400 Men, under the Command of Brigadier Blakeneyx rendezvous'd along Side of the Weymouth: At about five in the Morning, the General ordered Colonel Grant to move towards the Shore with the Grenadiers, who having landed (a) without Opposition, (k) The Author of the Pamphlet in his Note ( y ) is pleased to affirm, " That Things were on this Occasion (as they had "been throughout the whole) done without Order or Method; "for notwithstanding the Army had been apprized of the "Enemy's having made Lodgments along the Road; yet they. ' landed without a Granada Shell, or Field-Piece; and were "likewise told the Road was even able to sustain the Weight "of the heaviest Cannon." Here the Author, as has been his Method thro' his whole Pamphlet, boldly asserts, -without the least Foundation; for, it is evident, both from the Resolutions of Councils of War, and from publick Orders, that no Step was taken here, nor indeed upon any other Occasion, without a Plan first laid down; and (where Time would admit of it) well considered, and approved by a Council of War. It is very Certain, that when Mr. Macpherson, the Guide, was conducting the Troops thro'...