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perilous situation a body of French cavalry chap. 
charged down upon them ; but, instead of being *« 
thrown into any disorder, they coolly received 
the charge upon the points of their bayonets ; 
and the rest of the army coming up, routed the 
enemy on all sides. The French fled with the 
greatest precipitation. Our troops had been 
taught to expect no quarter, and therefore none 
was given. The wounded and the dying neither 
claimed nor obtained mercy ; all was blood, and 
death, and victory. It is in the midst of the 
glory this day's success reflected upon the 
■British arms, that Humanity remembers some 
things she may wish to forget, but never will 
record. The cool and patient valour with 
which our soldiers had sustained the torrent 
of French artillery, and beheld the streaming 
wounds of their companions, previous to their 
landing, could but prove a prelude to the fury 
they would manifest, w^hen it became their turn 
author in altcriug notes made from testimony upon the spot, in order 
to copy the narrative even of a more accurate writer. Having after- 
wards an occasion to examine the place of landing, the author visited 
the hill here alluded to ; and was at a loss to conceive, how troops 
could charge rapidly with fixed bayonets against a heavy fire, where, 
unimpeded by any other difficulty than the sinking of his foot in the 
Joose sand, he found it almost impraclicable to ascend. The fact, 
however, only proves what ardent valour may accomplish ; for that 
this was really-done, it would be absurd to doubt. 
