First Regiment 141 6 220 Twenty-first Regiment 441 20 849 Twenty-third Regiment 292 12 713 General Staff 4 4 --- -- ---- Total 874 42 1786 _Monthly return of troops under Major-General Brown, Fort Erie, July 31, 1814._ Bombardiers, etc. 58 2 69 Light Dragoons 47 1 64 Artillery Corps 241 12 364 First Brigade 905 40 2281 Second Brigade 874 42 1786 ---- -- ---- Total of Brown’s army 2125 97 4564 Drummond began operations by ordering a detachment of six hundred men to cross the river and destroy the magazines at Black Rock and Buffalo.[104] During the night of August 3 Colonel Tucker of the Forty-first, with four hundred and sixty rank-and-file of his own and other regiments,[105] landed two or three miles below Black Rock, and advanced against it. They were met at the crossing of a creek by two hundred and forty men of Morgan’s Rifles, then garrisoning Black Rock, with some volunteers. The effect of the rifles was so deadly that the British troops refused to face them, and Tucker returned after losing twenty-five men. This repulse, as creditable in its way to the American army as the battles at Chippawa and Lundy’s Lane, caused much annoyance to Drummond, who issued an order, August 5, expressing “the indignation excited by discovering that the failure of an expedition, the success of which... would have compelled the enemy’s forces to surrender or... encounter certain defeat, was attributable to the misbehavior of the troops employed.”[106] The only success achieved by British detachments was the cutting out of two American schooners which covered the approach to Fort Erie, near the shore.