You are to start early, make a twenty-mile march, halt for the night, and go on again the first thing in the morning.

You are to hire a cart for the wounded prisoners, and to exercise the utmost vigilance on the way.

The men are to carry loaded muskets.

It is not likely there will be any attempt at a rescue; but such things have happened before now.

If anything of the sort should take place, and you find that you are likely to get worsted, your orders are that you are not to let the Red Captain be carried off alive.