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by the British cavah-y, who found in the batteries forty-three
pieces of cannon. " The total loss sustained by the army between
the 10th and the 26th of August, amounted," says Thorn, '• to
fifteen officers and one hundred and twenty-eight European and
Native soldiers killed ; and six hundred and eighty-four were
wounded." According to the same authority, between the 4th
and 26th of August, the loss of the seamen and marines
employed on shore, was fifteen killed, and six officers and
forty-nine men wounded.
General Jansens, having fled to the eastward, the Commander-
in-chief, on the 31st of August, despatched some frigates to
Cheribon, a place of considerable importance from its command-
ing situation ; and the fort, through which General Jansens had
passed only two days before, was surrendered at the first
summons. The enemy's force, now inimbering fifty officers,
two hundred Europeans, and five hundred Native troops, who
had followed General Jansens by the eastern route, finding
themselves cut off by the capitulation of Cheribon, surrendered
at discretion, and were sent back to Buitenzorg as prisoners of
war. Carang Sambong, a place about thirty-five miles in the
interior, was garrisoned by a detachment of seamen and marines
on the 6th of September; the forts of Taggal, between Cheribon
and Samarang, and of iSamanap on the island of Madura, were
captured by the Navy, and Captain Harris, of the frigate ' Sir
Francis Drake,' defeated a desperate attempt which was made
to recapture the latter place.
As Sir Samuel Achmuty found from intercepted letters that
General Jansens intended to make a stand at Samarang, 350
miles from Batavia, he hastily proceeded thither on the 9th of
September, and was joined the same evening, by Admiral
Stopford with a portion of the fleet. On his arrival before that
place, where the French General had taken up a position, the
British Commander-in-chief made fresh proposals to him to
surrender the island, and put an end to a further useless ett'usion
of blood, but the Governor-General refused to treat. While
waiting the arrival of a sufficient number of troops to attack
Samarang, tlie Admiral despatched the armed boats of the
squadron to cut out some vessels which flanked the approaches of
the town, which was successfully accomplished.
General Jansens evacuated the town on the 12th, and took
up a fortified position, mounted with thirty pieces of cannon,
within a few miles of the place, which the Commander-in-chief
resolved to attack. This operation was undertaken by Colonel
Gibbs with a small force, the main portion of the British Army,
owing to a mistake, having sailed to Zedayo, but nothing could
withstand the headlong valour of the troops, who carried the
position with a rush. This was the last effort of General
Jansens, who fled to the fort of Salatiga, and, finding himself
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