The Centennial Celebration of General Sullivans Campaign Against the Iroquois
The Centennial Celebration of General Sullivans Campaign Against the Iroquois
Waterloo Library And Historical Society
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Two Captains, six Subalterns, and one hundred men were left as the garrison for Wyo- ming under command of Colonel Zebulon Butler, who was charged with forwarding such supplies as might be collected. The Artillery consisted of eight brass pieces, viz : two six-pounders, four three-pounders, two howit- zers, carrying five and a half -inch shells, and a light piece for carrying either shot or shell, called a cohorn. * The artillery, ammunition, the salted pro visions, flour, liquors, and heavy ba...ggage were loaded on two hundred and four- teen boats, f manned by four hundred and fifty enlisted boatmen, Colonel Proctor's Regiment, and two hun- dred and fifty soldiers ; all under the command of Colonel Proctor. To General Hand and his light troops was *A Cohorn is a small brass piece mounted on a wooden block with handles, so that It could be carried a short distance by hand. Colonel Proctor conceived the idea of put- ting legs under it, and placing it on board one of the light boats which was to precede the fleet, called it the "Grasshopper, " because the reaction of the discharge threw it over backwards.
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