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vigour, constantly maintaining the highest
degree of regularity ; nor was the foreign
brigade inferior to the British. After this,
the French no longer opposed in line, though
they kept up an unremitting fire of cannon
and small arms ; but, had there been a few
more cavalry with the British, all the ene-
my's artillery must have been captured, and
most probably their retreat cut off; or at
least, so many obstacles might have been
opposed to it, that the British would have
entered the works before the town, as soon
as their opponents.
The army still continuing to move for-
ward, the French were compelled to quit
their position, and immediately retreated over
the plains into their lines before Alexandria,
Aet, before they could reach this object,
Dillon’s regiment, which had moved to the
■ left, charged with the bayonet, seized upon
two guns placed on the canal, and immedi-
ately turned them upon the enemy. Sir
Ralph Abercrombie, next day, in the gene-
ral orders, did not forget to particularize the
gallantry of this regiment. Wishing also to
follow up ids successes by a coup de main*
and to carry the important post the French
had now retired to, he advanced across the
plain, ordering General Hutchinson to move
forwards with the second line to the left, and
secure a rising ground that projected ; he
therefore advanced, and occupied" the whole
of the Green-Hi 11, and detached the forty-
fourth in front-to -take a bridge on the canal
degree of regularity ; nor was the foreign
brigade inferior to the British. After this,
the French no longer opposed in line, though
they kept up an unremitting fire of cannon
and small arms ; but, had there been a few
more cavalry with the British, all the ene-
my's artillery must have been captured, and
most probably their retreat cut off; or at
least, so many obstacles might have been
opposed to it, that the British would have
entered the works before the town, as soon
as their opponents.
The army still continuing to move for-
ward, the French were compelled to quit
their position, and immediately retreated over
the plains into their lines before Alexandria,
Aet, before they could reach this object,
Dillon’s regiment, which had moved to the
■ left, charged with the bayonet, seized upon
two guns placed on the canal, and immedi-
ately turned them upon the enemy. Sir
Ralph Abercrombie, next day, in the gene-
ral orders, did not forget to particularize the
gallantry of this regiment. Wishing also to
follow up ids successes by a coup de main*
and to carry the important post the French
had now retired to, he advanced across the
plain, ordering General Hutchinson to move
forwards with the second line to the left, and
secure a rising ground that projected ; he
therefore advanced, and occupied" the whole
of the Green-Hi 11, and detached the forty-
fourth in front-to -take a bridge on the canal