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A Jacobite Exile

CHAPTER 7: Exchanged
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"I have been so accustomed to be attended to, in every way, that I was quite looking forward with dread to the journey among strangers.

Still, if you are all going, it will be a different thing altogether.

I don't think you will be long in raising the regiment.

We only were a week in getting the company together, and, if they have been refusing to accept the services of our people, there must be numbers of them at Gottenburg." Early on the following morning, Charlie and the men unable to march were placed in waggons, and the company started on its march to Revel.

It was a heavy journey, for the frost had broken up, and the roads were in a terrible state from the heavy traffic passing.
There was no delay when they reached the port, as they at once marched on board a ship, which was the next day to start for Sweden.


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