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,David Clarkson Tröjor, 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,Adam Graves Tröjor, with the left wing of the same regiment with which we were engaged, which was supported by a second regiment in broad white facings,Andre Burakovsky Tröjor, 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, 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, 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, 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,Pierre Pilote Tröjor, leaving their silent pieces to the Royal Horse.
The battle was in this state when there rose a cry of ��he King,Dale Hawerchuk Tröjor, the King!��and Monmouth rode through our ranks,Erik Karlsson Tröjor, bare-headed and wild-eyed, with Buyse,Dustin Brown Tröjor, Wade, and a dozen more beside him. They pulled up within a spear��-length of me,Belstaff Let Bomber Jackor, and Saxon, 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, and the half frantic bearing of the man whom we were compelled to look upon as our leader.
��ow think ye, Colonel Saxon?��he cried wildly. ��ow goes the fight? Is all well with ye? What an error, alas! what an error! Shall we draw off,Ron Duguay Tröjor, eh? How say you?��
��e hold our own here, your Majesty,��Saxon answered. ��ethinks had we something after the nature of palisados or stockados, after the Swedish fashion, we might even make it good against the horse.��
��h, the horse!��cried the unhappy Monmouth. ��f 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,Canada Goose Ontario Parka, lack-a-day,Sergei Bobrovsky Tröjor, lack-a-day! Shall we not advance?��
��here is no reason to advance, your Majesty,Belstaff Racemaster Blouson Jackor, now that the surprise has failed,��said Saxon. �� had sent for carts to bri
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