riving them back approached the spot where the
Ninety-second were lying. Major-General Barnes rode up to the
Highlanders taking off his hat, and shouted: "Now, Ninety-second,
follow me!"

The Highlanders sprang from the ditch in which they were lying, the
bagpipes struck up the slogan of the regiment, and with leveled
bayonets they threw themselves upon the French column. In vain its
leading companies attempted to make a stand. The Highlanders drove
them back in confusion, and they broke and fled to the shelter of the
hedgerows, where they tried to resist the advance, but the Highlanders
burst through without a pause. Their colonel, John Cameron, fell dead;
but his men, more furious than before, flung themselves on the French,
and drove them back in confusion into the wood.

Ney still thought of renewing the attack; but D'Erlon's corps had not
yet arrived, while at this moment two light battalions of
Brunswickers, with two batteries of artillery, came up, and almost
immediately afterward General Cooke's division, comprising two
brigades of the guards, reached the spot. The latter at once advanced
against the French skirmishers, just as they were issuing afresh from
the wood of Bossu. The guards had undergone a tremendous march; but
all thought of fatigue was lost in their excitement, and they swept
the French before them and pressed forward. As they did so the whole
British line advanced, Halket's brigade on the one flank the guards on
the other.

In vain the French cavalry charged again and again. In vain the French
infantry strove to stem the tide. One after another the positions they
had so hardly won were wrested from them. Picton's division retook the
village; Piermont was carried by the Ninety-fifth and the German
legion; while the guards drove the enemy entirely out of the wood of
Bossu. Night was now falling, and Ney fell back under cover of
darkness to his original position in Frasnes; while the British
lighted their fires, and bivouacked on the ground they had so bravely
held.

As soon as the order came for the troops to bivouac where they were
standing, arms were piled and the men set to work. Parties chopped
down hedges and broke up fences, and fires were soon blazing. Owing to
the late hour at which the fight terminated, and the confusion among
the baggage wagons that were now beginning to arrive from the rear, no
regular distribution of rations could be made. Most of the men,
however, had filled thei