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tended to have been commanded by Colonel 

 Uslar : four companies of this corps, how- 

 ever, having arrived at Angostura in the be- 

 ginning of the year 1819, and just previously 

 to the opening of the campaign on the Lower 

 Apur6, were, in consequence of the non- 

 arrival of the commandant with the remain- 

 der, intrusted to the command of Major 

 Mackintosh, and brigaded with the first 

 rifles, the whole being under the command 

 of Colonel Pigot during his stay with the 

 army. In giving an account of this batta- 

 lion, we shall enter more minutely into the 

 sufferings and privations necessarily to be 

 endured by soldiers on campaign in that 

 country, and more particularly as it made 

 the campaign of 1819 against New Grenada. 

 Although there were many old soldiers in 

 this corps, there were still more recruits; 

 and even the oldest soldiers might be heard 

 to complain of the hard fare of the new ser- 

 vice into which they had entered, although 



