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precision, there were, considering the numbers engaged, quite as 

 many men disabled as in the good old days of " Brown Bess " in the 

 wars of the first Napoleon and in our battles in India. Mr. Hill 

 Burton, in one of his recently published volumes of the History 

 of Scotland, and an admirable and very impartial history it is, 

 tells us that in the battle of Langside, an historical combat on the 

 issue of which so much in the after history of England and 

 Scotland depended, 10,000 men were engaged for three-quarters of 

 an hour, with a loss to the Queen's party of 300 hors de combat, 

 while the victors only lost one man ! A very extraordinary fact 

 certainly ; but a more wonderful fact still, and neither Mr. Burton 

 nor his reviewers seem to be aware of it, is that of the battle of 

 Tippermuir, fought in 1644, between the Covenanters and the 

 famous Marquis of Montrose, in which Montrose was victorious 

 without the loss of a single man on his own side, although of the 

 Covenanters between four and five hundred were killed in the 

 battle and pursuit. Another curious thing connected with the 

 battle of Tippermuir was this : a body of Highlanders, keen enough 

 for the fray, were without arms of any kind, when Montrose, point- 

 ing to the stones that thickly strewed the field, advised them to 

 try these to begin with, and they did, appropriating the arms of 

 their enemies as they fell, and using them with such effect that the 

 battle proper was over in less than half an hour. The only other 

 battle that we can recollect in which such primitive weapons as 

 stones were employed by the combatants was that of Cappel, 

 fought in 1531, between the Protestants of Zurich and the 

 Catholics of the neighbouring cantons. It was in this battle that 

 the celebrated reformer Zwingle, or Zwinglius, met his death. He 

 was first of all knocked down by a stone that, fiercely hurled, 

 struck him on the head, and then, with the exclamation, " Die, 

 obstinate heretic," the sword of Fockinger of Unterwalden pierced 

 his throat, and the reformer was no more. 



