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about his waist as a sash, was hoisted in its place. While the advanced 
party commanded by Lieut. Bullock was searching the barracks for 
stragglers, an American soldier was discovered in the act of secreting 
or preparing to destroy the colours of the 4th United States Infantry, 
which were taken from him and with the garrison flag now hang as 
trophies on the walls of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea.2 
McArthur’s command had returned within a couple of miles of 
the fort when the cannonade suddenly ceased, and he halted until in- 
formed by an inhabitant that the place had surrendered, when he with- 
drew as rapidly as possible to the bridge over the River Rouge, a 
distance of three or four miles, where he was overtaken by some fugitives 
from the town who confirmed this information. Captain Mansfield 
was then sent back to Detroit with a flag of truce, and returned with 
a letter from General Hull stating that his troops were included in the 
capitulation. Neither McArthur or Cass, who subsequently criticized 
Hull so bitterly, seemed to have offered the slightest remonstrance nor 
made the least effort to escape. Before night this column marched 
into Detroit and surrendered. No accurate return of the prisoners has 
become available. In his official letter, Brock stated that they could 
not be estimated at less than 2,500, and when Brush’s command, the 
Michigan Legion, and two regiments of Michigan militia are included, 
they must have considerably exceeded that number. The first hasty 
return of captured ordnance showed a total of thirty-three pieces of 
cannon, but the corrected report increased the number to thirty-nine 
carriage guns, besides fifteen wall pieces, 2,900 stands of muskets and 
rifles, and a large quantity of military stores? The United States 
brig Adams pierced for sixteen guns, lying at the wharf, also became 

? Richardson, pp. 57-9; Narrative of Shadrach Byfield. 2 
? Return of ordnance taken at Detroit, enclosed in Sir George Prevost’s 
despatch to Lord Bathurst, dated 20th March 1813: Brass guns—three six 
pounders, two four pounders, one 8 inch howitzer, one 5% inch howitzer, 
three 29-10 inch howitzers—total eleven guns. Tron guns—nine twenty- 
four pounders, nine twelve pounders, five nine pounders, four six pounders, 
on® 3 9-10 inch howitzer—total, 28 guns. Grand total, 39 guns. The 
5% inch howitzer is an English piece taken at Saratoga. The three pounder 
is also English, taken at Yorktown. Pikes, 100; ammunition waggons, 2; 
baggage waggons, 4; wall pieces, 15; flags, one English, two American; 
muskets, serviceable, 2,009; repairable, 285; unserviceable, 206; rifles, ser- 
viceable, 349; repairable, 25; unserviceable, 26. Four of the captured guns 
bearing the following inscriptions, “ La Brutale, Strasburg, 1760 ™ Sauvage, 
Strasburg, 1760”; W. Bowen fecit. 1755, Surrendered by the Convention of 
Saratoga, Oct. 17, 1777”; “Gilpin fecit. Taken from the Germans at Ben- 
nington, August 16, 1777, “ were removed to Quebec as trophies.” 
