by John Marshall

“ During the operations against that capital, the British army received very efficient assistance from the active and zealous exertions of Lieutenant Haynes, particularly at the landing of the ordnance aid military stores; on which occasion he was employed under Captain (now Rear-Admiral) John Bligh, to whom the superintendence of the disembarkation had been entrusted. We have seen a letter written by the captain of the fleet, wherein he says, “no department was better conducted than the one Lieutenant Haynes superintended ”