Here were the guns in order, there the relics of the 18th Hussars; there the Leicesters, the 60th, the Dublins, the Royal Irish Fusiliers, and the rest.

The guards were set and sentries posted.
But only two hours later the whole moved off again for three miles' further advance to get them well out of the mountains.

Why, on that perilous march through unknown and difficult country, the Dutch did not spring upon them in some pass and blot them out is one of the many mysteries of this strange campaign.
Among them I greeted many friends whom I had come to know at Dundee ten days before.

But General Symons and Colonel Gunning, whom I had chosen out as the models of what officers should be, were not there.

Nor was the young officer who had been my host--young Hannah of the Leicesters--who at his own cost came out in the ship with us rather than "miss the fun." A shell struck his head.