LUNDY'S LANE, BATTLE or, July 25, 1814. While the American army, 3,000 strong, were in camp at fort Chippewa, on the Niagara river, opposite Buffalo, under command of gen. Brown, intelligence was received at noon that the British gen. Drum mond had crossed the Niagara at Queenstown to attack fort Schlosser, the American depot of supplies. Gen. Brown immediately sent col. Winfield Scott (afterward gen.) with 1200 men to make a demonstration on Queenstown. Near sunset, gen. Scott found himself approaching a strong force of the British, posted behind a belt of woods on an eminence, supported by a battery of nine guns, and commanded by- gen. Rial. This position was at the head of Lundy's lane, m. from Niagara Falls. Scott seeing the strength of force opposed, sent back to gen. Brown for support, and at once ordered maj. Jessup with the 25th regiment to attack the English on the left flank, and himself occupied their attention by a vigorous attack in front. Jessup's flank attack was suc cessful, and resulted in the capture of the English gen. Rial. But on the front col. Scott met a galling resistance. Gen. Brown arrived with reinforcements in the evening, and gen. Drummond had arrived and reinforced the enemy. An attack was ordered on the front to capture the English battery. Under cover of the darkness two reghnents were pushed forward. The first was repulsed by timely discharges of grapeshot, but col. Scott at the head of the second succeeded iu capturing the battery, turned it against the enemy, and enabled gen. Brown to hold the hill in force against three desperate assaults of the English troops to regain possession. The struggle closed at midnight by
the withdrawal of the British troops. Considering the small forces engaged, it was a sanguinary battle. Gen. Drummond, as well as gen. Brown and col. Scott, were wounded, the latter severely. After the battle the command devolved on gen. Ripley, who for lack of force was obliged to leave the trophies of the evening's victory, and to retire to fort Chippewa. The American loss in killed and wounded was 743; the British, 878.
Lir'NEBURG, formerly a principality in Lower Saxony, now a district in the province of Hanover. Area, 4,293 sq.m.; pop. '71, 384,210, mostly Protestants. The Elbe forms its northern boundary. Great part of the country is occupied by the Luneburg Heath. See HANOVER.
thiNEBURG, a t. of Hanover, in the province of the same name, is situated on the river Ilmenau, 24 m. s.e. of Harburg by railway. It is mentioned as early as the age of Charlemagne, and was formerly an important Hanseatic town. It is surrounded with high walls and towers, and possesses many ancient buildings. The trade is considera ble. In the immediate vicinity of Luneburg is the salt-work of SUlze, discovered in the 10th c., and still ve7 productive. Close by is a hill 200 ft. high, with rich seams of lime and gypsum. Pop. '71, 16,284. It was at Luneburg that the first engagement took place in the German war of liberation, April 2, 1813. About 16 m. to the s.w. of the town, in the LtIneburg Heath, lies the GOhrde, a beautiful forest, with a royal hunting lodge.