Fort Mifflin

From Francois de Fleury's journal.

Oct. 15 [1777]. At 8 in the morning, the Enemy unmask'd the two Superior Batteries of the Bank, and House. They produced no other effect than break[ing] three of our Palisades in half-battering down the Coping of the Buttress Work, and oversetting two Merlons. The greatest part of the Bombs extinguish'd by the humidity do not burst, and occasion more Fear than Damage-at noon they open'd the lower Battery on the bank.