Daily National Intelligencer

Daily National Intelligencer, August 31, 1814

"The magazine at Greenleaf’s Point was destroyed (partially only) and the guns spiked on Thursday. In a dry well belonging to the barracks our soldiers had thrown many barrels of powder for concealment. After exploding the magazine, the British soldiers through casually into this well one or two of their matches, which communicated to the powder deposited there. The effect was terrific. Every one of his soldiers near was blown into eternity, many at a greater distance wounded, and the excavation remains an evidence of the great force of this explosion."