[62] The following description written from the trenches gives some idea of the work: “Now as to our fighting underground, blowing up like kites in the air, not being sure of a foot of ground we stand on while in the trenches. Our miners and the enemy very often meet each other, when they have sharp combats till one side gives way. We have got into three or four of the enemy’s great galleries, which are thirty or forty feet underground and lead to several of their chambers; and in these we fight in armour by lanthorn and candle, they disputing every inch of the gallery with us to hinder our finding out their great mines. Yesternight we found one which was placed just under our bomb batteries, in which were eighteen hundredweight of powder besides many bombs: and if we had not been so lucky as to find it, in a very few hours our batteries and some hundreds of men had taken a flight into the air.”—_Daily Courant_, 20th August. [63] 8th, 10th, 15th, 16th. [64] Parker. [65] A nominal list in the _Postboy_ of 1st October gives 36 officers killed and 46 wounded. An earlier list of 17th September gives 40 officers and 511 men killed, 66 officers and 1020 men wounded; but this is admittedly imperfect. [66] ORDER OF BATTLE. CAMPAIGN OF 1709. RIGHT WING ONLY Right. 1st Line Sybourg’s Brigade. Scots Greys, 3 squadrons. 5th Royal Irish Dragoons, 2 squadrons. Kelburn’s Brigade 1st Dragoon Guards, 2 Squadrons. 5th Dragoon Guards, 2 Squadrons. 7th Dragoon Guards, 2 Squadrons. 6th Dragoon Guards, 1 Squadron. 3rd Dragoon Guards, 2 Squadrons. Orrery’s Brigade 26th Cameronians. Two foreign battalions. Prendergast’s Foot. Two Foreign Brigadiers. Twenty-seven squadrons of foreign dragoons. 1 Batt. 1st Guards. 1 Batt. Coldstream Guards. 1 Batt. Royal Scots. 37th Foot. 10th Foot. 2nd Batt. Royal Scots. 23rd Royal Welsh. Orrery’s Foot. 3rd Buffs. Temple’s Foot Evans’s Foot. 16th Foot. 8th Foot. 24th Foot. 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers. 18th Royal Irish. No British troops in the second line; but the 15th and 19th Foot were also present at the action of Malplaquet. Left. [67] 11th, 37th, Kane’s, Clayton’s, and one foreign battalion of foot. The losses of the expedition were 29 officers and 676 men drowned. [68] Honey wood to Carteret, Jan. 7/18; Ligonier to Carteret, March 21/April 1, 1744. [69] Ligonier to Carteret, April 29/May 10. [70] Wade to Carteret, May 30/June 10, June 25/July 6. [71] Carteret to Wade, May 25/June 5. [72] Carteret to Wade, July 13/24, 17/28. [73] Carteret to Wade, July 31/Aug. 11, Aug. 14/25, 17/28. [74] Wade to Carteret, Aug. 26/Sept. 6. [75] _Ibid._, Aug. 19/30, Aug. 25/Sept. 5, Sept. 16/27, Sept. 22/Oct. 3, Oct. 1/12, 10/21