AccountOfTheSiegeBombardmentOfCopenhagen

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and danger encreased. As soon as the fire b r o k e o u t in one place, it was continually, augmented by the shells, which were directed to that spot, and consequently the fire-men were obliged to withdraw. Many of these unfortunate men Were k ill’d at their post, in nobly attempting to do their duty. Th e vast fire at the timber-yard, and the shells and rockets, incessantly thrown towards Christianshavn, threatened this part o f the town with destruction, and compelled as well those,, who fled thither for refuge as the inhabitants o f this place to look for another retreat. Every one now fled to ¡.the island o f Ama c k , wh ich , besides its own inhabitants, contained at this time between twenty and thirty thousand stran­ gers. A1J. the scenes o f horror and misery, which appeared in every quarter, cannot.be described. The sick arid, wounded were dragged from the hospitals and carried in W'aggons, exposed to the enemy’s shells, b y •y/ k which many had again to sufieri- Women