A battery and flagstaff on the coast were taken possession of by the tenth company of the SEVENTY-FIRST, and in lieu of a flag a soldier’s red jacket was hoisted on it. This advance having succeeded at all points, and the enemy having fallen back on _Flushing_ and _Middleburg_, the army was disembarked. The advance then dividing, proceeded by different routes. The SEVENTY-FIRST moved by the sea dyke on a fort called _Ter Veer_, the situation and strength of which was not sufficiently known, an enemy’s deserter having given but imperfect intelligence respecting it. After nightfall the column continued to advance in perfect silence, with orders to attack the post with the bayonet, when, on a sudden, the advance-guard fell in with an enemy’s party, who came out for the purpose of firing some houses which overlooked the works. The column following the advance-guard had entered an avenue or road leading to the fort, when the advance commenced the action with the enemy, who, retiring within the place, opened a tremendous fire from his works with artillery and musketry. Some guns pointing down the road by which the battalion advanced did great execution, and the SEVENTY-FIRST had Surgeon Charles Henry Quin killed, and about eighteen men killed and wounded. The column, after some firing, retired, and the place was the next day regularly invested by sea and land. It took three days to reduce it, when it capitulated, with its stores, and a garrison of 800 men. _Flushing_ having been invested on the 1st of August, the SEVENTY-FIRST, after the surrender of Ter Veer, were ordered into the line of circumvallation, and placed on the extreme left, resting on the Scheldt. The preparations for the attack on the town having been completed, on the 13th a dreadful fire was opened from the batteries and bomb-vessels, and congreve rockets having been thrown into the town, it was on fire in many places. The ships having joined in the attack, the enemy’s fire gradually slackened, and at length ceased. A summons being sent in, a delay was demanded, but being rejected, the firing recommenced. On the 14th of August one of the outworks was carried at the point of the bayonet by a party of detachments and two companies of the SEVENTY-FIRST under Lieut.-Colonel Pack. In this affair, Ensign Donald Sinclair, of the SEVENTY-FIRST, was killed; Captain George Spottiswoode and a few men were wounded. _Flushing_, with its garrison of 6,000 men, capitulated on the 15th of August, and the right gate was occupied by a detachment of 300 men of the first or Royal Scots, and the left gate by a detachment of similar strength of the SEVENTY-FIRST under Major Arthur Jones. The naval arsenal, and some vessels of war which were on the stocks, fell into the hands of the British.