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Great exertions were immediately made to remove the captured 

 stores of which there was an unexpectedly large quantity. Four 

 brass and seven iron guns with a large supply of round shot, 673 

 stand of small arms, twelve barrels of powder and fourteen kegs 

 of ball cartridges were brought away with the colours of a regiment 

 of New York militia and the garrison flag. Five iron guns, lying on 

 the wharf without carriages were rendered unserviceable. The prison- 

 ers, mainly militia, numbered seventy-four, of whom four were officers. 

 Fifteen hundred barrels of provisions were discovered in store in the 

 public and private warehouses, of which only a small part could be 

 removed at once from want of transport. Two capacious ranges of 

 barracks, the armed schooners Dolphin and Niagara and two 

 gunboats of the row-galley type, were burned. The place was evacua- 

 ted before dark. 1 Macdonnell's total loss was fifty -six killed and 

 wounded or about twelve per cent of the force engaged. 



Forsyth retreated nine miles to Black Lake that day and thence 

 to Sackett's Harbour. Macdonnell followed up his success by a req- 

 uisition for the delivery of all surplus provisions, flour and wheat 

 remaining in the hands of the inhabitants, offering to pay them the 

 full market price and promising protection and security from invasion 

 in future providing that the town of Ogdensburg was not again oc- 

 cupied as a military post, as he declared that complete satisfaction 

 had at length been obtained by force of arms for all depredations com- 

 mitted on the Canadian side. Many of the people had already de- 

 serted their homes but those who remained were naturally quite 

 willing to comply with so reasonable a demand. 2 



The expulsion of the sole remaining American garrison on the 

 St. Lawrence secured the line of communication from any immediate 

 danger of interruption and enabled the British commissary officers 

 to draw considerable supplies of provisions and forage from hostile 

 territory for the subsistence of the troops at Prescott, Cornwall, 

 Montreal and its dependencies. The result of the action became known 

 at Kingston next day and at Montreal on the .24th and was made the 

 subject of congratulatory orders in both districts. Guns and stores 

 of all kinds were forwarded as quickly as possible to Upper Canada 

 while the sleighing lasted. 



1 Macdonell to Harvey, Feby. 22, 3 p.m.; Macdonell to Baynes, Feby. 2; 

 Returns of casualties and captured stores; Forsyth to Macomb, Feby. 22; Macomb 

 to Dearborn, Feby. 23; Dearborn to Secretary of War, Feby. 25; Letter in New York 

 Gazette, Mch. 2, to Senator H. H. Atwater from his son dated Feby. 27; Letter in 

 Poulson's Daily American Advertiser, dated Feby. 27; General Orders, Kingston, 

 Feby. 23, and Montreal, Feby. 25. 



2 Letter in New York Gazette, Mch. 9. 



