The instant the officer left the engine-house a storming-party of marines battered in the doors; in five minutes the conflict was over.

One marine was shot dead in the assault; Brown fell under severe sword and bayonet wounds, two of his sons lay dead or dying, and four or five of his men were made prisoners, only two remaining unhurt.

The great scheme of liberation built up through nearly three years of elaborate conspiracy, and designed to be executed in defiance of law, by individual enterprise with pikes, rifles, forts, guerrilla war, prisoners, hostages, and plunder, was, after an experimental campaign of thirty-six hours, in utter collapse.

Of Brown's total force of twenty-two men, ten were killed, five escaped, and seven were captured, tried, and hanged.

Of the townspeople, five had been killed and eight wounded.
[Illustration: HOUSE IN WHICH JOHN BROWN WAS BORN, TORRINGTON, CONNECTICUT.] [Sidenote] Sanborn in the "Atlantic," Dec.1875.p.