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supported by armed positions on too small a scale, was 

 surprised in the night by a sortie of the troops from the 

 town. The heads of our soldiers carried into Jaffa were 

 paid for by their weight in gold. The head of Mains, 

 however, did not figure in the number of these bloody 

 trophies, for the sole reason that at the moment of the 

 silent invasion of the battery by the Turks he was asleep 

 in one of the angles of the entrenchments. The breach 

 having been opened, and the garrison not having answered 

 to the summons made them, the troops advanced to the 

 assault to the sound of the bands of all the regiments. 

 Here I will no longer abridge, but copy : 



" The enemy was overthrown, discouraged, and retired, 

 after a sharp firing of m-usquetry from the houses and 

 forts of the city ; they kept their ground, however, at 

 some points, and continued their fire for an hour. Dur- 

 ing this time the soldiers, scattered through all parts, 

 killed men, women, children, old persons, Christians, and 

 Turks ; every thing that bore the human form was the 

 victim of their fury. 



" The tumult of carnage, the broken doors, the houses 

 shaken by the noise of the firing and of arms, the 

 cries of the women, the father and child overthrown one 

 on the other, the violated daughter on the corpse of her 

 mother ; the smoke of dead bodies burned in their gar- 

 ments which had been set on fire, the smell of blood, the 

 groans of the wounded, the cries of the conquerors dis- 

 puting together over the spoils of their expiring prey, 

 infuriated soldiers responding to the cries of despair by 

 exclamations of rage and redoubled blows ; lastly, men 

 satiated with blood and gold, falling down in mere weari- 

 ness on the heaps of corpses ; such was the spectacle 

 which this unfortunate city presented until night." 



