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Colonel MuUins, consisting of the 

 44th regiment under Major John- 

 son, the marines of the fleet under 

 Captain Robj'ns, and a detach- 

 ment of seamen under Captain 

 Money, of the Trave, formed line 

 along the enemy's front, while the 

 left brigade under Colonel Pater- 

 son, consisting of the 21st regi- 

 ment, commanded by Major 

 Whitaker, the 2nd battalion ma- 

 rines by Lieut.-Colonel Malcolm, 

 and a detachment of marines by 

 Major Lewis, remained in co- 

 lumns on the road, with orders to 

 deploy to his left, and press the 

 enemy's right, the moment the 

 ground became sufficiently open to 

 admit of that movement. 



In this order, the signal being 

 given, the whole of tiie troops ad- 

 vanced rapidly to the charge. In 

 less than fifteen minutes, the 

 enemy's force, being utterly broken 

 and dispersed, fled in every direc- 

 tion over the country, leaving on 

 the field two pieces of cannon, 

 with a considerable number of 

 killed, wounded, and prisoners. 



The enemy lost in this short but 

 brilliant affair from five to six 

 hundred in killed and wounded ; 

 while at the most moderate com- 

 putation, he is at least one thou- 

 sand hors de combat. The 5th 

 regiment of militia, in particular, 

 has been represented as nearly an- 

 niiiilaied. 



Tiie day being now far ad- 

 vanced, and the troops (as is al- 

 ways the case on the first march 

 after disembarkation) much fa- 

 tigued, we halted for the night on 

 the ground of which the enemy 

 had been dispossessed. Here I 

 received a communication from 

 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Alex- 

 ander Cochrane, informing me that 



the frigates, bomb ships, aid flo- 

 tilla of the fleet, would on the en- 

 suing morning take their stations 

 as previously proposed. 



At daj'-break on the liJth, th ■ 

 army again advanced, and at ten 

 o'clock I occupied a favourable po- 

 sition eastward of Baltimore, dis- 

 tant about a mile and a half, and 

 from whence I could reconnoitre 

 at my leisure tlie defences of that 

 town. 



Baltimore is completely sur- 

 rounded by strong but detached 

 hills, on which the enemy had 

 constructed a chain of palisaded 

 redoubts, connected by a small 

 breast-work : I have, however, 

 reason to think that the defence to 

 the northward and westward of 

 the place were in a very unfinished 

 state. Chinkapin Hill, which lay 

 in front of our position, completely 

 commands the town ; this was the 

 strongest part of the line, and 

 here the enemy seemed most 

 apprehensive of attack. These 

 works were defended, according to 

 the best information which we could 

 obtain, by about fifteen thousand 

 men, with a large train of artillery. 



Judging it pei-fectly feasible, 

 with the description of forces under 

 my command, I made arrange- 

 ments for a night attack, during 

 which the superiority of the ene- 

 my's artillery would not have been 

 so much felt, and Capt. M'Dougal, 

 the bearer of these dispatches, will 

 have the honour to point out to 

 your Lordship those particular 

 points of the line which I had 

 proposed to act on. 



During the evening, however, 

 I received a communication from 

 the Commander in Chief of the 

 naval forces, by which I was in- 

 formed, that in consequence of tlie 



