Although the full strength of the Regiments commanded, respectively, by Colonels Shepard, Read, Baldwin, and Glover -- the latter, at that time, commanded by Captain Curtis -- was less than eight hundred effective men,* the brave fisherman who temporarily commanded the Brigade pushed forward toward the place where the enemy's Light Infantry and Grenadiers and Chasseurs had landed, and where the main body was about to land, although the rough and broken ground over which the Brigade was moved compelled him to leave, on his route, the three field-pieces which he had taken from his encampment. He had not marched more than half the dis-

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