Camp at Cambridge, August 4, 1775.
[Extract]
. . . The other [skirmish] happened at the Light House; A Number of Work men having been sent down to repair it, with a Guard of 32 Marines and a Subaltern. Major [Benjamin] Tupper, last Monday Morning [July 31] about 2 o'clock landed there with about 300 Men Attack'd them killed the Officer and 4 Privates, the remainder thereof, [3 of] which are badly wounded he brought off Prisoners with 10 Tories, all of whom are on their Way to Springfield Gaol. But being detained by the Tide, on his Return, he was Attack'd by several Boats, but happily got thro' with the loss of one Man killed and another Wounded.
1. Fitzpatrick, ed., Writings of Washington, III, 394, which omits the number of enemy wounded as shown between brackets (Number in Papers CC I, 51, NA).
