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9 1ST ARGYLLSHIRE HIGHLANDERS. 129About an hour after this the gun was fired 1846.several times from the direction of the north-westhill, about two miles and a half from this. I atonce caused the infantry to be turned out, andsent out two companies, amounting together to100 men, of the 91st Regiment, with the view ofaffording support to the cavalry and guns ifnecessary. I ordered Major Yarborough out totake command of the whole. The infantry arrivedon the ground where the cavalry were abouthalf-past 3 o'clock, and met the gun returning tothe post disabled, in consequence of one of thewheel horses having been shot. The cavalrywere then in extended order, engaged with theinfantry advancedenemy near a dense bush. Theand extended one company, and commenced firing.Major Yarborough, after some time, ordered themto retire so as to draw the enemy more into theopen country, which succeeded, and Captain SirH. Darell, who had retired behind the infantryand closed, had an opportunity of charging withhis troops,and reports having sabred from fifteento twenty of the enemy before they could get tothe bush. The infantry then advanced again,and afterwards tried the same plan retiring. Theenemy came out a little way, keeping up a brisk9