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the guns 400 yards in our rear all clear, and no one to 

 carry them off — the worst part of all — as a very strong 

 regiment of Lancers came on our rear, and we had 

 to ait our way through them. Lord Lucan never 

 supported us, the Scots Greys, the nearest, at least a 

 mile in our rear !! The 13th and 17th lead thus : — 







" I have drawn a rough plan to try and help you 

 to understand it, the shaded part high hills. All the 

 returns are wrong in the papers. We had no 



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