XIV MEMOIR OF COLONEL 



be routed by them. At the same time, which much ad- 

 vantaged them, the rear part of Heanes's regiment hav- 

 ing opened and drawn themselves on either side into the 

 woods, counterflanked the Spaniards, and charged their 

 ambuscadoes, which the Spaniards perceiving, and that 

 the sea regiment advanced unrouted, retreated. The 

 English then charged them afresh, pursued them, and 

 beat them back beyond the fort, and so regained the 

 bodies of the slain, and the place of fight, which ground 

 they kept the rest of that day, and the night following, 

 though the guns from the fort all that time, as well as 

 during the skirmish, played hotly upon them, and killed 

 sometimes eight or nine at a shot. 



In this action, the valiant Heanes, major general, 

 and Ferguson before mentioned, and such other officers 

 of those regiments as knew not what it was to fly, fell 

 by the swords and lances of the Spaniards ; and many 

 common soldiers with them. 



The English now about the fort, Venables com- 

 manded to assault it, and that to that enxl, they should 

 play the mortar-piece against it, and had it drawn up for 

 that purpose. But he himself being before brought 

 very low with his flux, the toil of the day had so far 

 spent him, that he could not stand or go but as supported 

 by two; and in that manner he moved from place to 

 place, to encourage the men to stand, and to plant it. 

 But the latter he could not prevail on, neither by com- 

 mands, entreaties, or offers of rewards. At last, faint- 

 ing among them, he was carried off, and Fortescue, who 

 succeeded major general, in the stead of Heanes, took 



