Note 14 — Chapter IV
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Now Captain Maclean.
15 Probably such a word of command may astonish some adjutant-major, but I give it as it occurred: in rough ground, in rough times, and in a rough country, such expedients are resorted to in war.
16 On assembling in the churchyard behind Arcangues, an athletic soldier of this company being without his knapsack, told us, that while passing through the village three French soldiers had surrounded him, and one had hold of his collar; but he throwing his knapsack on the ground, knocked one man down, and the others seized his knapsack, and by this means he effected his escape.