Meanwhile, I hurried to and fro, encouraging the burghers in their attempts to break through.

When thus engaged I came across two of my staff, Albertus Theunissen and Burt Nissey.

To them I gave the order: "Get the waggon through at all costs." I also found my son, Isaac, and kept him with me.

The English now were firing not only from in front but also on our right, and there was nothing for it but to clear a road for ourselves, and this we eventually succeeded in doing, and in about forty minutes had at last broken through.
The enemy had dug trenches, thirty to forty paces from each other, which served as _schanzes_.

In each of these trenches were placed ten to thirty men.