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"Macwitty," he said, "I will give this young lady into your charge. Take her straight up to the camp. There are three ladies there," he said to his cousin, "and in the tent they have some clothes for you to change into. It will not be long before I shall rejoin you. But I must join my regiment now; they are engaged with the enemy."
The ground is very uneven and broken, and you should be able to find some spot where the men would be in shelter; move a couple of hundred yards back, then Macwitty would flank any force advancing against you. The sun will set in a few minutes, so you had better lose no time in taking up your ground.
As soon as they moved on, Terence sent an orderly at a gallop across the valley, to order Macwitty and Moras to follow the French along on the hills on their side of the valley, and to harass them as much as possible; while he, with Bull's command, kept parallel with them on his side. The French cavalry kept ahead of their column.
Then he rode after Bull, whose battalion had now reached the valley and halted there. "We must go to the assistance of the brigade on the hill, Bull, or they will be overpowered before reinforcements can reach them. "Herrara, bring on Macwitty after us, as soon as he gets down. "Take the battalion forward at the double, Bull."
"My dear cousin, it is evident that you know very little of English customs, though you speak English so well. We don't call our cousins Mr. and Miss; you will have to call me Terence and I shall certainly call you Mary. Macwitty brought you back to camp all right?" "Yes; but it was terrible to hear all that firing, and I was wondering all the time whether you were being hurt."
He has had great pleasure in recommending him to the commander-in-chief for promotion in the British army. He has also to report very favourably the conduct of Lieutenant Ryan, of the Mayo Fusiliers, and Ensigns Bull and Macwitty, all attached for service to the Minho regiment; and shall bring before General Lord Beresford that of Lieutenant Colonel Herrara, of the same regiment."
The regiments were at once formed into squares within fifty yards of each other, and Terence and Bull in the centre of one square, and Herrara and Macwitty in the other, exhorted the men to stand steady, assuring them there was nothing whatever to be feared from the cavalry if they did so.
I am a lieutenant now I have got the step since you saw me last but I am to rank as a colonel in the Portuguese army as long as I command this corps, which I am glad to say is now to form a part of the British army. Herrara is to have the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Bull and Macwitty will, I hope, get their commissions as ensigns in the British army, with local rank of majors.
Terence and Herrara had a consultation, and then the former called Bull and Macwitty to him. "Now," he said, "you understand that while we will defend this defile as long as we can, we will run no risk of a defeat that might end in a rout.
We will have two English officers with each, as there is no chance of the soldiers listening to a Portuguese officer. How many are there of us?" There were the twelve captains, and twenty subalterns. "Bull and Macwitty, do you take half of them; Colonel Herrara, Ryan, and I will take the other half. When you have once obtained admission, barricade the door and lower windows with furniture.
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