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22 HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THE1813. Samuel G-ibbs, sailing to Stalsund with thetroops under Brigadier-General Gore, whichexpedition shortly returned, and the battalionagain sailed from Yarmouth in December to join1814. the army in Holland. On the 2nd of March, 1814,they were brigaded with the other regimentsunder Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Graham, andwere present at the unfortunate attack uponthe strong fortress of Bergen-op-Zoom.On the 8th of March Sir Thomas Grahamcollected about 4000 British troops,foranattempt to carry the place by storm. Theywere formed into four columns, two to attack thefortifications at different points, one to make afalse attack, and the fourth to attemptan entranceby the mouth of the harbour, which is fordableat low water. The attack at first was quitesuccessful,as the two first columns establishedthemselves on the ramparts but when; there,unforeseen difficulties arose which made itnecessary to alter the point of attack, and resultedin a number of men being killed and wounded.Finally, this attempt was abandoned, and thetroops retired, leavingover 300 dead.Napoleon, when at St. Helena in 1817, isreported to have observed that the storming of