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Through Three Campaigns

CHAPTER 11: An Arduous March
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All along the line a brisk engagement went on.

The camp pickets took up their positions early in the afternoon, and a foraging party went out and brought in supplies, after some fighting.
Kempster's Brigade had not been able to reach the camp, and settled itself for the night three miles farther up the valley.

It, too, had its share of fighting.
All night it rained heavily, and the morning of the 11th broke cold and miserable.

It was freezing hard; the hilltops, a hundred feet above the camp, were wrapped in snow; and the river had swollen greatly.

The advance guard waded out into the river bed, and the whole of the brigade followed, the Ghoorkhas clearing the sides of the valley.


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