Having re-assembled about two hundred men, he advanced boldly and rapidly at their head, to force the barrier.

One or two persons had now ventured to return to the battery, and seizing a slow-match, discharged a gun, when the American front was within forty paces of it.

This single and accidental fire proved fatal to the enterprise.
The general, with Captains M'Pherson and Cheeseman, the first of whom was his aid, together with his orderly sergeant and a private, were killed upon the spot.

The loss of their general, in whom their confidence had been so justly placed, discouraged the troops; and Colonel Campbell, on whom the command devolved, made no attempt to reanimate them.

This whole division retired precipitately from the action, and left the garrison at leisure to direct its undivided force against Arnold.
[Footnote 23: Annual Register.] At the common signal for the attack, the division commanded by this officer moved in files along the street of St.Roques towards the Saut de Matelots, where the first barrier had been constructed, and a battery of two twelve pounders erected.