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Excerpt from A Brief Sketch of the Military Operations on the Delaware During the Late War: Together With a Copy of the Muster-Rolls of the Several Volunteer-Corps Which Composed the Advance Light Brigade, as They Stood at the Close of the Campaign of One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fourteen
Commodore Berresford, in which he made a demand upon them for twenty live bullocks, with a proportionate quantity' of vegetables and hay, promising payment at thie'philadel phia prices, but threatening in case of non-compliance, 'to destroy their town. This civil'epistle was addressed to the first magistrate of and as might have been anti cipated, was received by the people with hearty indignation. A positive refusal was returned, and the enemy were given to understand that they could expect nothingbut what they could obtain by force.
The intelligence of this menace, with the probability of its being put into execution, soon spread along the shores of the Delaware, and aroused the dormant feelings of those who fan cied that the destroying power of the enemy wodld chiifiy be exercised 'on the ocean. At Lewistown a considerable body of militia immediately'asse'mbled, and at Dover, Smyrna, New Castle and Wilmington, measures for assisting to repel the in vaders were promptly entered upon. Volunteer corps were formed, and batteries to protect the two latter towns were soon constructed. The specie of the banks of new-castle and Wilmington was removed for safety to Philadelphia, and every arrangement was made'for an expected invasion. Two volun teer companies at Philadelphia, viz. The Independent Blues, Captain Mitchell, and the Junior Artillerists, a company of spirited and respectable young men associated for the purpose in three days notice, under the'command of Capt. Jacob H. Fisler, volunteered to garrison'fort Mi?lin, and were acceptt-i ed for that service on the 22d of March.
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