We should do a thousand times better, by ourselves; then we should know what we had to expect." "It is evident that there won't be any fighting until tomorrow, Macwitty.

You will place half your battalion on the hillside, from this point to the bottom of the slope.

I don't think that they will come so high up the hill as this; but you will, of course, throw some pickets out above.

The other wing of your battalion you will hold in reserve, a couple of hundred yards behind the centre of the line; but choose a sheltered spot for them, for those guns Victor is placing on his heights will sweep the face of this hill.
"This little watercourse will give capital cover to your advanced line, and they cannot do better than occupy it.

Lying down, they would be completely sheltered from the French artillery and, if attacked, they could line the bank and fire without showing more than their heads.