Nigel Graheme was still laid up, but his company formed part of the force.
"This is ill fortune indeed," Malcolm said to Lieutenant Farquhar, "thus to be shut up here while the army are marching away to win victories in the field." "It is indeed, Malcolm, but I suppose that the king thinks that Tilly is likely to try and retake these places, and so to threaten his rear as he marches forward.

He would never have placed as strong a force of his best soldiers here if he had not thought the position a very important one." The troops were quartered in the larger buildings of New Brandenburg; the officers were billeted upon the burghers.

The position of the country people and the inhabitants of the towns of Germany during this long and desolating war was terrible; no matter which side won, they suffered.

There were in those days no commissariat wagons bringing up stores from depots and magazines to the armies.

The troops lived entirely upon the country through which they marched.