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A few minutes after we arrive up goes the white flag & ^they come out of the hollow & file past us to the rear. I am nearly mad with thirst and bless the man who offers me his water bottle. My two mates endeavour to raise some of our party by Helio & I sit on a rock & hold the horses a little distance away. The village is just on our right. An officer rides past me & yells "A Squadron follow me." They folllow him round a bend of the hill & I lose sight of them. I speak to one of them 2 hours later & he tells me that 6 of them were wounded when they charged through the town but alas they left the officer there shot through the head. X The French have ^now captured the six guns that shelled us (earlier in the day) on a hill at the back of the town.X I dont where these guns were and was sitting