. The history of Scotland, its Highlands, regiments and clans . taltythe •r to thewho n old md< i Roman Camp at Ardoch Photogravurt from the Painting by Brown I. BATTLE OF PRESTON were at hand, they instantly mounted their horses andfled towards Dunbar with such precipitation and alarm,that they dropped their arms by the way. Next morningthe road to Dunbar was found to be strewed with theswords, pistols, and firelocks, which had fallen fromthe nerveless hands of these cowards. Colonel Gardi-ner, who had slept during the night in his own houseat Preston, near the field where the dragoons wer
. The history of Scotland, its Highlands, regiments and clans . taltythe •r to thewho n old md< i Roman Camp at Ardoch Photogravurt from the Painting by Brown I. BATTLE OF PRESTON were at hand, they instantly mounted their horses andfled towards Dunbar with such precipitation and alarm,that they dropped their arms by the way. Next morningthe road to Dunbar was found to be strewed with theswords, pistols, and firelocks, which had fallen fromthe nerveless hands of these cowards. Colonel Gardi-ner, who had slept during the night in his own houseat Preston, near the field where the dragoons were tobivouac, was surprised, when he rose in the morning,to find that his men were all gone. All that he couldlearn was that they had taken the road to followed them with a heavy heart, which certainlydid not lighten when he saw the proofs they had leftbehind them of their pusillanimity. These arms werecollected and conveyed in covered carts to Dunbar,where they were again put into the hands of the cravendragoons. The landing of Copes troops was finished on Wednes-day, the seventeenth of September; but the disembarka-tion of the artillery and stores
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