to the simple rustics. Such of my scythesmen as could handle a musket were thrown forward into the fighting line, and furnished with the arms and pouches of those who had fallen.
Ever and anon as the light waxed I could note through the rifts in the smoke and the fog how the fight was progressing in other parts of the field. On the right the heath was brown with the Taunton and Frome men, who, like ourselves, were lying down to avoid the fire. Along the borders of the Bussex Rhine a deep fringe of their musqueteers were exchanging murderous volleys, almost muzzle to muzzle, with the left wing of the same regiment with which we were engaged, which was supported by a second regiment in broad white facings, which I believe to have belonged to the Wiltshire Militia. On either bank of the black trench a thick line of dead, brown on the one side, and scarlet on the other, served as a screen to their companions, who sheltered themselves behind them and rested their musket-barrels upon their prostrate bodies. To the left amongst the withies lay five hundred Mendip and Bagworthy miners,UGG Classic Short Paisley 5831, singing lustily, but so ill-armed that they had scarce one gun among ten wherewith to reply to the fire which was poured into them. They could not advance,Duvetica Muži Vesta, and they would not retreat, so they sheltered themselves as best they might, and waited patiently until their leaders might decide what was to be done. Further down for half a mile or more the long rolling cloud of smoke, with petulant flashes of flame spurting out through it,Parajumpers Muži Hermann, showed that every one of our raw regiments was bearing its part manfully. The cannon on the left had ceased firing. The Dutch gunners had left the Islanders to settle their own quarrels, and were scampering back to Bridgewater,Air Jordan Retro 6 Damskie, leaving their silent pieces to the Royal Horse.
The battle was in this state when there rose a cry of ‘The King,Barbour Bunda, the King!’ and Monmouth rode through our ranks,Duvetica Ženy Kappa, bare-headed and wild-eyed, with Buyse,Werder Bremen Drakt, Wade,Marco Verratti Drakt, and a dozen more beside him. They pulled up within a spear’s-length of me, and Saxon,Fox Fur Czyścibut 5531, spurring forward to meet them, raised his sword to the salute. I could not but mark the contrast between the calm, grave face of the veteran, composed yet alert,Moncler Angers, and the half frantic bearing of the man whom we were compelled to look upon as our leader.
‘How think ye, Colonel Saxon?’ he cried wildly. ‘How goes the fight? Is all well with ye? What an error, alas! what an error! Shall we draw off, eh? How say you?’
‘We hold our own here, your Majesty,Blake Griffin Drakter,’ Saxon answered. ‘Methinks had we something after the nature of palisados or stockados, after the Swedish fashion,CG Menn Chateau Parka, we might even make it good against the horse.’
‘Ah, the horse!’ cried the unhappy Monmouth. ‘If we get over this, my Lord Grey shall answer for it. They ran like a flock of sheep. What leader could do anything with such troops? Oh, lack-a-day, lack-a-day! Shall we not advance?’
‘There is no reason to advance, your Majesty, now that the surprise has failed,’ said Saxon. ‘I had sent for carts to bri
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