For in Dixcart the shore shelves gently, and the valley runs wide to the beach; fifty boats could land there in a line, and their crews could come up the sloping way by the streamlet ten abreast.

It would be no easy place to defend if the enemy pushed his attack with persistence, and every man we had would be needed.
We tumbled into our men as they settled their plan of defence.

We were twenty-one all told.

Ten were to go along the Hog's Back cliff towards Pointe Chateau, where they would overlook the point of landing, if the enemy made straight for the valley.

They were to begin firing the moment the boats touched shore, and then to draw back into the valley.