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Updated: May 26, 2025
Middleton; he has a language that I can compare only to a review-day of the field forces. But I have the story on authority that I cannot question: it is confirmed by my daughter's unexampled behaviour. And if I live through this day I shall look about me as a ghost to-morrow." "Dear Mr. Dale!" said the Patterne ladies, compassionately.
The farthest effective range of rifle fire in those days was reckoned at a hundred yards. The Americans were ordered to hold their fire till the enemy reached the oaks, a grove one hundred yards from the main bridge on the other bank. The British came on in perfect review-day style. Now a hush fell on all. The British officer in command was heard clearly giving his orders.
Servants were keeping places for the ladies "on the Batteries" an alarming position it would seem. The Sergeants were running "with vellum books" under their arms, usually left at home on Review-day. The operations were, however, not under his command, but directed by the "Commander-in-Chief," not, of course, of the Army, but, we may presume, the General of the district.
There sat General Chattesworth, behind his guns, which were now blazing away like fun, wearing his full uniform, point cravat and ruffles, and that dignified and somewhat stern aspect which he put on with the rest of his review-day costume, bestriding his cream-coloured charger, Bombardier, and his plume and powdered ails de pigeon, hardly distinguishable from the smoke which enveloped him, as a cloud does a demigod in an allegorical picture.
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