[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Americans had arrived close to the outer works. Then, heedless of shot and shell, they made the assault in two columns, which ar-rived in the center of the works almost at the same instant. The garrison surrendered at discretion. The heroic Wayne, leading one of the columns, received a wound on the head, and, thinking he was dying, said: "Carry me into the fort and let me die at the head of my column." In his report to Washington he used these noble words: " The humanity of our brave soldiery, who scorned to take the lives of a vanquished foe when calling for mercy, reflects the highest honor on them and accounts for the few of the enemy killed on the oeeasiem." The enemy's killed were only 63. It will be recalled that in the storm-ing of Forts Clinton and Montgomery the Americans lost 250 out of a. total no larger than that of the British at Stony Point; and indeed it is notorious that the victors upon the former occasion ruthlessly bayoneted most of the defenders who failed to escape. By this glorious exploit Wayne was exalted to the highest pinnacle of fame, and to the present day the splendor of it has not faded away. Probably no hero of a single military coup de main was ever hailed with greater applause than was showered upon W7ayne. Even the malignant, backbiting General Charles Lee wrote to him from his disgraceful retirement a letter of glowing enthusiasm — although at the trial of Lee Wayne had been one of the chief witnesses against him.