There were officers, and you ought to have captured them, instead of allowing yourself to be put to flight by a hundred and fifty men." "We must have killed half the horsemen before the infantry came up." "All the worse, colonel, that you did not complete the business.
The infantry would not have been formidable, after they discharged their pieces.

However, it is your own affair, and I wash my hands of it.

What the czar will say when he hears of it, I know not, but I would not be in your shoes for all my estates." As Charlie learned afterwards, the colonel was degraded from his rank by the angry czar, and ordered to serve as a private in the regiment he commanded.

The officer who acted as translator said something in his own tongue to the general, who then, through him, said: "This officer tells me that by your language you are not a Swede." "I am not.

I am English, and I am an ensign in the Malmoe Regiment." "All the worse for you," the general said.