The guards had undergone a tremendous march; but all thought of fatigue was lost in their excitement, and they swept the French before them and pressed forward.

As they did so the whole British line advanced, Halket's brigade on the one flank the guards on the other.
In vain the French cavalry charged again and again.

In vain the French infantry strove to stem the tide.

One after another the positions they had so hardly won were wrested from them.

Picton's division retook the village; Piermont was carried by the Ninety-fifth and the German legion; while the guards drove the enemy entirely out of the wood of Bossu.