Gordon says: "The British officers pronounced it downright butchery to lead the men afresh against those lines."
Ramsay says: "Of one company not more than five, and of another not more than fourteen, escaped."
Lossing says: "Whole platoons were lain upon the earth, like grass by the mower's scythe."
Marshall says: "The British line, wholly broken, fell back with precipitation to the landing-place."
Frothingham quotes this statement of a British officer: "Most of our grenadiers and light infantry, the moment they presented themselves, lost three fourths, and many nine tenths, of their men. Some had only eight and nine men to a company left, some only three, four, and five."
Botta says: "A shower of bullets. The field was covered with the slain."
Bancroft says: "A continuous sheet of fire."
Stark says: "The dead lay as thick as sheep in a fold."
[pg 300]