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mer position. »As soon as .the 
second division was brought up, 
the gun vessels and boats re- 
turned for the remainder of the 
troops, the small-armed seamen 
and marines of the squadron, 
and such supplies as were re- 
quired. 
On the 25th Major-General Sir 
E. Pakenham, and Major-Gene- 
ral Gibbs, arrived at head quar- 
ters, when the former took com- 
mand of the army. 
The schooner which had con- 
‘tinued at intervals to annoy the 
troops having been burnt on the 
27th by hot shot from our artil- 
lery, and the ship having warped 
further up the river, the follow- 
ing day the General moved for- 
ward to within gun-shot of an 
entrenchment which the enemy 
had newly thrown up, extending 
across the cultivated ground from 
the Mississippi to an impassible 
swampy wood on his left, a dis- 
tance of about one thousand 
yards. 
It being thought necessary to 
bring heavy artillery against this 
work, and also against. the ship 
which had cannonaded the army 
when advancing, guns were 
brought up from the shipping, 
and on the Ist instant. batteries 
were opened; but our fire not 
having the desired effect, the at- 
tack was deferred, until the ar- 
rival of the troops under Major- 
General Lambert, which were 
daily expected. 
Major General Lambert, in the 
Venguer, with a convoy of trans- 
ports, having on board the 7th 
and 43rd-regiments, reached the 
outer anchorage-on the Ist, and 
this reinforcement was all brought 
up to the advance on the 6th inst. 
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while preparations were making 
for a second attack, in the pro- 
posed plan for which, it was de- 
cided to throw a body of men 
acrossj the river to gain posses- 
sion of the enemy’s guns on 
the right bank. For this pur- 
pose the canal by which we were 
enabled to conduct provisions 
and stores towards the camp, was 
widened and extended to the 
river, and about fifty barges, pin- 
naces, and cutters, having in the 
day time of the 7th, being track- 
ed under cover and unperceived, 
close up to the bank, at night the 
whole were dragged into the Mis- 
sissipi, and placed under the 
command of Captain Roberts of 
the Meteor. 
The boats having grounded in 
the canal, a distance of three 
hundred and fifty yards from 
the river, and the bank being 
composed of wet clay thrown 
out of the canal, it was not until 
nearly-day-light that with the ut- 
most possible exertions the ser- 
vice was completed. 
The 85th regiment, with a 
division.of seamen under Captain 
Money, and a division of ma- 
rines under Major Adair, the whole 
amounting to about six hundred 
men, commanded by Colonel 
Thornton, of the 85th regiment, 
were embarked and landed on the 
right bank of the river without 
opposition, just after day-light ; 
and the armed boats moving up 
the river as the troops advanced, 
this part of the operations suc- 
ceeded perfectly ; the enemy hav- 
ing been driven from every posi- 
tion, leaving behind him seven- 
teen pieces of cannon. 
The great loss however sus 
tained by the principal attack hav- 
