Note 885 — SECTION XXXVIII: CHAPTER III

Mr. Fortescue (History of the Army, ix. p. 258) thinks that the 34th got up in time to join in their last struggle. But Bell of that regiment says ‘we laboured on, but all too late—a forlorn hope—our comrades were all killed, wounded, or prisoners. The enemy had full possession of the ground.’ Bell’s Rough Notes, i. p. 103.