AccountOfTheSiegeBombardmentOfCopenhagen

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Bruiin oi the life-riflemen was killed’; two life-riflemen wounded and some killed. Captain Hummel , the Lieutenant F r ilo e , Rothe and Ellevsen o f the land-artillery as well as Count Platen o f the Danish life-regi- ment were slightly wounded. The 29 of Aug. 4 or 3000 english.troops attacked the armed peasantry of Zealand, Lolland and Moen a), n ea rK jo ge , about 6 danish miles from Copenhagen, under the command o f General Castenskjold. But the greatest part o f these peasants, wanting regu­ lar arms as well as artillery, and being quite untrained, the consequences must be very unfortunate for the Danes. 150 men w'ere wounded and General Oxholm as well as 56 Officers o f different ranks, and 1 7 - lS oo men were made prisoners. The whole en­ gagement could not be regarded as a regu­ lar Battle. W e slightly pafs over this affair, for the whole conduct o f these peasants de­ serves no consideration. Aug. 31 the Commandant published the following B u lle tin : Finding it ne-