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*cuddles Kincaid* Bless his scribbling fingers!
While I was attentively watching its progress, there arose, all at once, behind the rising ground to my left, a yell of the most terrific import ; and, convinced that it would give instantaneous birth to as hideous a body, it made me look, with an eye of lightning, at the ground around me; and, seeing a broad deep ditch within a hundred yards, I lost not a moment in placing it between my piquet and the extraordinary sound. I had scarcely effected the movement, when Lord Wellington, with his staff, and a cloud of French and English dragoons and horse artillery intermixed, came over the hill at full cry, and all hammering at each others' heads in one confused mass, over the very ground I had that instant quitted. It appeared that his Lordship had gone there to reconnoitre, covered by two guns and two squadrons of cavalry, who, by some accident, were surprised; and charged by a superior body of the enemy, and sent tumbling in upon us in the manner described.
...
I was highly interested, all this time, in observing the distinguished characters which this
unlooked-for tumrup had assembled around us. Marshal Beresford and the greater part of the
staff remained with their swords drawn and the Duke himself did not look more than half-
pleased, while he silently despatched some of them with orders. General Alten, and his huge
German orderly dragoon, with their swords drawn, cursed, the whole time, to a very large
amount ; but, as it was in German, I had not the full benefit of it.
(Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, of course.)
While I was attentively watching its progress, there arose, all at once, behind the rising ground to my left, a yell of the most terrific import ; and, convinced that it would give instantaneous birth to as hideous a body, it made me look, with an eye of lightning, at the ground around me; and, seeing a broad deep ditch within a hundred yards, I lost not a moment in placing it between my piquet and the extraordinary sound. I had scarcely effected the movement, when Lord Wellington, with his staff, and a cloud of French and English dragoons and horse artillery intermixed, came over the hill at full cry, and all hammering at each others' heads in one confused mass, over the very ground I had that instant quitted. It appeared that his Lordship had gone there to reconnoitre, covered by two guns and two squadrons of cavalry, who, by some accident, were surprised; and charged by a superior body of the enemy, and sent tumbling in upon us in the manner described.
...
I was highly interested, all this time, in observing the distinguished characters which this
unlooked-for tumrup had assembled around us. Marshal Beresford and the greater part of the
staff remained with their swords drawn and the Duke himself did not look more than half-
pleased, while he silently despatched some of them with orders. General Alten, and his huge
German orderly dragoon, with their swords drawn, cursed, the whole time, to a very large
amount ; but, as it was in German, I had not the full benefit of it.
(Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, of course.)
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