this force as being fifteen times superior to that in
Pensacola, whence we may infer that General Campbell
commanded between six and seven hundred
white men. The Indians, though drunken, barbarous,
and undisciplined, were useful to the British. At last,
on the morning of the 8th of May, a shell exploded in
the powder-magazine of one of the redoubts, killing
many of the Pennsylvania Tories who occupied the
work, and causing great confusion. The Spaniards
hereupon increased the fury of their fire, and in the
afternoon of the same day General Campbell hung
out the white flag, and surrendered on terms in
accordance with which the garrison were all shipped to
New York on condition of not serving against Spain,
or her allies, until exchanged. As the United States
were not at the time allied with Spain, the Waldeckers
could be immediately employed against the
Americans.[1]
- ↑ For the Waldeckers in Florida, see Eelking's “Hülfstruppen,” vol. ii. pp. 135-153. Eelking had access to two MSS. The MS. now in the library of the Prince of Waldeck at Arolsen is a fragment beginning April 11th, 1780. See, also, Schlözer's “Briefwechsel,” vol. v. p. 112, and an article by George W. Cable in the Century Magazine for February, 1883.
