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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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After
a
long
and
desperate
struggle,
lasting
in
fact
nearly
four
hours,
General
Abercromby
gave
orders
for
a
retreat.
The
troops
could
hardly
be
prevailed
upon
to
retire,
and
it
was
not
till
the
order
had
been
given
for
the
third
time
that
the
Highlanders
withdrew
from
the
hopeless
encounter.
The
loss
sustained
by
the
regiment
was
as
follows:
eight
officers,
nine
sergeants
and
297
men
killed;
seventeen
officers,
ten
sergeants
and
306
men
wounded.
Inverawe,
after
having
fought
with
the
greatest
courage,
received
at
length
his
death
wound.
Colonel
Grant
hastened
to
the
dying
man's
side,
who
looked
reproachfully
at
him,
and
said:
"You
deceived
me;
this
is
Ticonderoga,
for
I
have
seen
him".
Inverawe
never
spoke
again.
Inverawe's
son,
an
officer
in
the
same
regiment,
also
lost
his
life
at
Ticonderoga.
On
the
very
day
that
these
events
were
happening
in
far-away
America,
two
ladies,
Miss
Campbell
of
Ederein
and
her
sister,
were
walking
from
Kilmalieu
to
Inveraray,
and
had
reached
the
then
new
bridge
over
the
Aray.
One
of
them
happened
to
look
up
at
the
sky.
She
gave
a
call
to
her
sister
to
look
also.
They
both
of
them
saw
in
the
sky
what
looked
like
a
siege
going
on.
They
saw
the
different
regiments
with
their
colours,
and
recognised
many
of
their
friends
among
the
Highlanders.
They
saw
Inverawe
and
his
son
fall,
and
other
men
whom
they
knew.
When
they
reached
Inveraray
they
told
all
their
friends
of
the
vision
they
had
just
seen.
They
also
took
down
the
names
of
those
they
had
seen
fall,
and
the
time
and
date
of
the
occurrence.
The
well-known
Danish
physician,
Sir
William
Hart,
was,
together
with
an
Englishman
and
a
servant,
walking
round
the
Castle
of
Inveraray.
These
men
saw
the
same
phenomena,
and
confirmed
the
statements
made
by
the
two
ladies.
Weeks
after
the
gazette
corroborated
their
statements
in
its
account
of
the
attempt
made
on
Ticonderoga.
Every
detail
was
correct
in
the
vision,
down
to
the
actual
number
of
the
killed
and
wounded.
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