by John Marshall

“ But in justice to the governor and garrison of Gluckstadt, I beg to state, that they defended their post as brave men, and that the cause of humanity appears to have determined the governor to surrender.
“The city has suffered much by fire, as well as in deaths, and I firmly believe, a few days’ bombardment would have entirely destroyed it. On the nights of the 2d and 3d, we had two 18-pounders and two 32-pounders within point-blank, constantly at work with red-hot shot, besides the mortar and rocket battery, which caused immense destruction, and kept the city in constant flames. ”

“ On the 25th, two guns only were in battery, which were intended to flunk the pier-head and enemy’s gun-boats: from the extreme badness of the roads, the officer in command of the engineers did not prepare for more, conceiving that those, in a joint attack, might prove sufficient.
“There was not water to enable the Desirée to approach within gunshot of the fortress: to obviate this misfortune as much as possible, I deemed it expedient to strengthen our attack, by putting two long 18-pounders from this ship into each brig. ”

“ Negociations were then happily set on foot, and yesterday this extremely strong fortress, which has been several times besieged by powerful armies, but never carried, was, at length, after an investment of sixteen days, and a most effectual bombardment of six, surrendered to a division of the Crown Prince of Sweden’s army, under the command of Baron de Boyé, and that of his Britannic Majesty’s squadron under my command, as per margin [3] . ”