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9 1ST AEGTLLSHIRE HIGHLANDERS. 63banks under a wastingfire of cannon and isu.musketry. The 42nd and 79th, who were inadvance, rushed the Colombette and Calvinetredoubts ; they were, however, driven out againwith great slaughter.Brown, in his account of Pack's brigade in thisaction in " Highland Clans," says, " Two of theredoubts on the left were occupied by the 42nd,the one on the right by the 7"9th, the 91st beingin rear of a farmhouse. The left redoubt bysome oversight had notbeen properly occupied,and the enemy in great strength rushed it, overpoweringthe 42nd, who were compelled to retireto the farmhouse ; but, being promptly supportedby the 91st, they again attacked the enemy anddrove him back."In a conversation between General Hill andGeneral Stewart a few days after the battle, theformer, alluding to the above-mentioned attack,said to General" Stewart, I saw your friendsthe Highlanders in a most perilous position, andhad I not known their firmness I should havetrembled for the result ;as it was, they could nothave resisted the force brought againstthem ifthey had not been so instantaneously supported."After this repulse,a fresh column of the