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They stand firm now, and Duchaud, chewing his grey moustache, murmurs his appreciation of so gallant a foe. "That side will win," he mutters, "who can best keep on killing." "Up, guards, and at them!" Maitland's brigade of guards had been crouching in the corn crouching waiting for the order to charge red-coated lions in the ripening corn ready to spring at the word.
Cleeves and Lloyd have been forced to abandon their guns: the British artillery is silenced and the chasseurs of Michel hold the extreme edge of the upland, and turn a deadly fusillade upon Colin Halkett's brigade already attacked by Milhaud and his guards and now severely shaken. "See the English General!" cries Duchaud to his cuirassiers, "he is between two fires. He cannot escape."
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