I hear this morning that we have lost about a hundred and twenty officers killed and wounded, and about two thousand one hundred and fifty men, and nearly seven hundred missing or prisoners.

What your loss is, of course, I can't say." "I cannot understand your taking so many prisoners," Fergus said.
"A great many of them belong to the cavalry.

You see, all who were dismounted by the fire of our guns were captured when our horse swept down." "Ah, yes! I did not think of that.

I saw a good many men running across the plain when I galloped out." Two of the officers belonged to the 3rd Royal Dragoon Guards, half of which regiment had taken part in the reconnaissance; and both their horses, like his own, had been shot under them.

As soon as they were brought up from the tents where they had been lodged, they exchanged a cordial greeting with Fergus.