A Residence in the West Indies And America With a Narrative of the Expedition to the Island of Walcheren V.2
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So, gathering up the fragments, I prepared to return the compliment, by ordering my guns into position. The enemy, I saw, were strongly fortified on a ridge of hills in our front, within a breast- work, resting on two field-works on the hill 240 MEETING WITH CAPT. W. ST. CLAIR. of Souriry. The right battery crowned the height at its precipitous descent into a ravine ; and the whole commanded an irregular bro- ken vale of unequal ground and cane-pieces, situated between it and us. While this was... doing, I took the oppor- tunity of running down to a stream of clear water, which was between us and a country- house, the property of a planter, occupied by Sir George Prevost, under and in rear of the hill we were on ; and w^as employed in wash- ing my face and hands in this clear water, flowing through the bottom, when my brother, Captain William St. Clair, at the head of the Grenadiers and Light Company, 25th Re'gi- ment, passed me, hurrying on to the front. They had been ordered round to join a Light Corps from the West India army w^hich was with us, under Major Campbell, York Light Infantry.
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