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artillery, & in general made a pretty mess of things, Byng on the other hand withdrew almost all his men & his Army made a wonderful fight & lost very light & never lost a gun the whole time, Gough has been relieved of his command & I'm not sorry to hear of it, he was the general who refused to have the Australians at one time & now all the Army Commanders almost rush them if they think they have a chance of getting us.
5th.Rained fairly heavy again last night & when we moved off this afternoon it was very wet & sloppy, one of my birds done a get, he was missing when I called my roll previous to moving off, so I went & had a look in his hut but the bird had flown sure enough
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