twenty-and-three

Updated: June 15, 2025

Then we gathered and stroked our dead twenty-and-three; we put our wounded in the governor's house, and gave them the rough leech-craft of the fighting field; the dead of the assailants we threw over the rock, and among them was a clean-shaven man in trews and a tight-fitting cota gearr, who left two halves of an otter-skin cap behind him.

Neil Munro - John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn