Memoirs of Capt George Carleton An English Officer Including Anecdotes of Th
Memoirs of Capt George Carleton An English Officer Including Anecdotes of Th
George Carleton
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But he, taking little notice of all I said, kept on his round march ; seeing which, I pressed forward CAPTAIN CARLETON. 253 my mule, which was a very good one, and rid as fast as her legs could carry her, till I had got on the top of the hill. When I came there, I found both my expectation and my apprehensions answered : for I could very plainly discern three squadrons of the enemy ready drawn up, and waiting for us at the very winding of the hill. Hereupon I hastened back to the captain with t...he like speed, and told him the dis- covery I had made ; who nevertheless kept on his march, and it was with a good deal of difficulty that 1 at last prevailed on him to halt, till our rear guard of twenty men had got up to us. But those joining us, and a new troop of Spanish dragoons, who had marched towards us that morning, ap- pearing in sight ; our captain, as if he was afraid of their rivalling him in his glory, at the very turn of the hill, rode in a full gal- lop, with sword in hand, up to the enemy.
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