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9 1ST ARGYLLSHIRE HIGHLANDERS. 73for the various actions which were enumerated inis is.a general order dated " Horse Guards, June 1st,1847," callingfor a list of the names of officersand men who had served in these actions.On the 19th of June the 91st proceeded, withthe rest of the army, in pursuit of the flyingenemy,and on the 24th of that month sat downat Cambray, a stronglymiles from Valenciennes.fortified town seventeenHaving refused to capitulate,the town was carried by assault, onecolumn being commanded by Colonel Douglas ;and the whole of the garrison surrendered thenext day. The casualties of the 91st in thisattack were two lieutenants (Andrew Cathcartand James Black) and sixprivates wounded, andone private killed. On the 26th of June thedivision proceeded en route to Paris, and on the1st of July arrived at Autel-de-Dieu, wherePrivate Johnson of the 91st was killed at hispost by some of the French picquets.On the 4th of July a suspensionof arms wasagreedto under the walls of Paris.In the IrishTimes of the 17th of January, 1879, we read ofthe death of William Ballantine of the 91st, whowas present at Waterloo, and shared in theadvance on Paris, and who was the first man to