^ The Founding of Liberia 



On November 30th the Des once more began to assemble 

 large forces in the woods round the apex of the peninsula, and 

 on December ist about a thousand of them attacked the stockade. 

 The thirty-five warriors within kept them at b?,y for hours; T. 

 Tines was killed, Gardiner and Crook very badly wounded, and 

 Ashmun received three bullets through his clothes. Towards 

 evening the enemy withdrew, and some one in or outside the 



46. VICINITY OF SITE OF FIRST STOCKADE ON CAPE MESURADO 

 (town OF MONROVIA IN DISTANCE) 



palisade discovered the cause by sighting the approach of a 

 British war vessel. This was the Prince Regent, a colonial 

 schooner on its way from Sierra Leone to Cape Coast Castle. 

 Hearing the noise of gun-firing, the Captain of the Prince 

 Regent sent to inquire the reason, and soon afterwards dispatched 

 a midshipman named Gordon, with eleven seamen (who were 

 the crew of a prize travelling under Gordon's command), to 

 the assistance of the beleaguered colonists. Gordon conveyed 



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