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Waverley

CHAPTER LXXII
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"I will attack them with all my heart," says Mons.

de Cluny, "if you order me." "I do order it then," answered my Lord George, and immediately went on himself along with Mons.

de Cluny, and fought sword in hand on foot, at the head of the single tribe of Macphersons.

They in a moment made their way through a strong hedge of thorns, under the cover whereof the cavalrie had taken their station, in the struggle of passing which hedge My Lord George Murray, being dressed EN MONTAGNARD, as all the army were, lost his bonnet and wig; so continued to fight bare-headed during the action, They at first made a brisk discharge of their firearms on the enemy, then attacked them with their sabres, and made a great slaughter a considerable time, which obliged Comberland and his cavalrie to fly with precipitation and in great confusion; in so much, that if the Prince had been provided in a sufficient number of cavalrie to have taken advantage of the disorder, it is beyond question that the Duke of Comberland and the bulk of his cavalrie had been taken prisoners.

By this time it was so dark that it was not possible to view or number the slain, who filled all the ditches which happened to be on the ground where they stood.


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