GENERAL HISTORY. 



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raent of the position of the dif- 

 ferent corps composing his army. 

 The corps of Bulow, forming its 

 right, was in the environs of Brus- 

 sels, and had pushed its advanced 

 posts in the environs of flions. 

 Winzingerode, whose head-quar- 

 ters were at Namur, formed the 

 centre : he had already gained pos- 

 session of Mons, Avesnes, and 

 Rheims. WoronzofF had passed 

 the Rhine at Cologne to come in 

 contact with him. The advanced 

 guard of the Swedish army was to 

 be on the Rhine on the 21st, and 

 the whole army was expected to 

 cross that river before the end of 

 that month. The Danish troops 

 had taken the route of Dusseldorf, 

 passing by Bremen and Munster. 

 It was the declared intention of the 

 Crown-Prince to unite the whole 

 army nnder his orders on a line 

 between Soissons and Rheims, and 

 then to act according to circum- 

 stances. The success of Winzin- 

 gerode at Soissons has been already 

 mentioned. Tournay was in the 

 possession of the allies about the 

 20th, the French General Maison 

 having retired to Lisle. Sas Van 

 Ghent about this time surrendered 

 by capitulation. 



The result of an unfortunate at- 

 tack upon the strong fortress of 

 Bergen-op-Zoora was the latest in- 

 telligence at this time commu- 

 nicated from Holland. On the 

 night of March 8, Sir Thomas 

 Graham collected about 4,000 Bri- 

 tish troops for an attempt to carry 

 the place by storm. They were 

 formed into four columns, of which 

 two were destined to attack at dif- 

 ferent points of the fortiti cations, 

 the third to make a false attack, 

 and the fourth to attack by the 

 entrance of the harbour, which is 



fordable at low water. The first 

 of these, on the left, led by Ma- 

 jor-Gen. Cooke, incurred some de- 

 lay on account of a difficulty in 

 passing the ditch on the ice, but 

 at length established itself on the 

 rampart. In the mean time the 

 right column under Major-Gen. 

 Skerret, and Brigadier-Gen. Gore, 

 had forced their way into the body 

 of the place, but the fall of the lat- 

 ter officer, and dangerous wounds 

 of the former, caused the column 

 to fall into disorder, and suffer a 

 great loss in killed, wounded, and 

 prisoners. The centre column 

 being driven back by the heavy 

 fire of the place with considerable 

 loss, was re-formed, and marched 

 round to join General Cooke. At 

 day break the enemy turned the 

 guns of the place upon the troops 

 on the unprotected rampart, smd 

 much loss and confusion ensued, 

 the detail of which it is unneces- 

 sary to transcribe. Gen. Cooke at 

 length, despairing of success, di- 

 rected the retreat of the guards, 

 which was conducted in the most 

 orderly manner; and finding it im- 

 possible to withdraw his weak bat- 

 talions, he saved the lives of the 

 remaining men by a surrender. 

 The governor of Bergen-op-Zoom, 

 Gen. Bizanet, whu is represented 

 as a brave and humane man, agreed 

 to a suspension of hostilities for aa 

 exchange of prisoners, and to li- 

 beral stipulations for the treatment 

 of the wounded left in his hands. 

 The number of killed on this occa- 

 sion was computed at about three 

 hundred,andof prisoners, at 1,800, 

 among whom a considerable num- 

 ber were wounded. 



An English reader will naturally 

 feel impatience to be informed of 

 the movements of the combined 



