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9 1ST AEGYLLSHIRE HIGHLANDERS. 179detachment of the91st, commanded by CaptainMiddlemore, was with Colonel Eyre's division,that Ensign Pickwick and one private werewounded.A detachment under command of Major Forbes,accompanied by Lieutenants Mainwaring andCrampton, Ensign Bruce, and Assistant-SurgeonBarclay, nineteen sergeants, three drummers, and100 rank and file, went to the Amatola Mountainson the 24th of June, under command of Major-General Somerset, and was engaged with theenemy on the 26th, 27th, and 28th, and on the2nd of July. A general order was issued onthe 3rd of July, in which the commander-in-chiefspoke in high terms of the conduct of the troopson this occasion, when the operations werecrowned with signal success, and the completediscomfiture of the enemy ; 2200 head of cattleand fifty horses fellinto the hands of the troops,while the enemy were driven with considerableloss from every one of the strong and insurmountablepasses they attempted to defend. " Theaccuracy and energy with which Major-GeneralSomerset carriedinto effect with the 1st division(to which the 91st belonged) the part assignedto him in the complicated and combined move--