I have never seen troops better handled, or more steady.

This cannot be the first time they have been under fire." Terence bowed, when the compliment was translated to him.
"They fought, General, in the campaign last year," he said, "and the regiment takes its name from the fact that they prevented Marshal Soult from crossing at the mouth of the Minho; but their first encounter with your cavalry was near Orense." "I remember it well," the general said, "for I was in command of the cavalry that attacked you.

Your men were not in uniform, then, or I should have known them again.

How did you come to be there?
For at that time, the British had not advanced beyond Cintra." "I had been sent with a message to Romana and, happening to come across this newly-raised levy, without officers or commander, I took the command and, aided by two British troopers and a Portuguese lieutenant, succeeded in getting them into shape; and did my best to hold the pass to Braga." "Peste!" the general exclaimed.

"That was you again, was it?
It was the one piece of dash and determination shown by the Portuguese, during our advance to Oporto, and cost us as many men as all the rest of the fighting put together.
"And now, Colonel, we must be marching.