If such troops cannot keep their ground, none can.

Fourteenth, there's your place; the artillery and the Sixteenth are with you.

They've the odds of us in numbers, lads; but it will tell all the better in the 'Gazette.' I see they're moving; so fall in now, fall in; and Merivale, move to the front.

Ramsey, prepare to open your fire on the attacking squadrons." As he spoke, the low murmuring sound of distantly moving cavalry crept along the earth, growing louder and louder, till at length we could detect the heavy tramp of the squadrons as they came on in a trot, our pace being merely a walk.

While we thus advanced into the plain, the artillery unlimbered behind us, and the Spanish cavalry, breaking into skirmishers, dashed boldly to the front.
It was an exciting moment.