[Footnote 129: "The 42d regiment was then in the height of deserved reputation; in it there was not a private man that did not consider himself as rather above the lower class of people, and peculiarly bound to support the honor of the very singular corps to which he belonged. This brave, hard-fated regiment was then commanded by a veteran of great experience and military skill, Colonel Gordon Graham,[149] who had the first point of attack assigned to him: he was wounded at the first onset. How many this regiment, in particular, lost of men and officers, I can not now exactly say; what I distinctly remember having often heard of it since is, that of the survivors, every one officer retired wounded off the field. Of the 55th regiment, to which my father had newly been attached, ten officers were killed, including all the field officers. No human beings could show more determined courage than this brave army did."--_Memoirs of an American Lady_, vol. ii., p. 81.] [Footnote 130: "Captain John Campbell and a few men forced their way over the breast-work, but were instantly dispatched with the bayonet."--Stewart's _Sketches of the Highlanders_, vol. ii., p. 61.] [Footnote 131: It was at this period that Pitt commenced his bold, yet, as it proved, most safe and wise policy of raising Highland regiments from the lately disaffected clans. I have already alluded to this measure by anticipation. Let me now add only the glowing words which Chatham himself applied to it in retrospect. "My lords, we should not want men in a good cause. I remember how I employed the very rebels in the service and defense of their country. They were reclaimed by this means; they fought our battles; they cheerfully bled in defense of those liberties which they had attempted to overthrow but a few years before."--Lord Chatham's _Speech in the House of Lords_, December 2d, 1777, quoted by Lord Mahon, _History of England_, vol. iv., p. 133.] [Footnote 132: "So misinformed or so presumptuous was General Abercromby, that he expected to force this strong position by musketry alone, and had resolved to commence the attack without awaiting his artillery, which, for want of good roads, was yet lagging in the rear."--Lord Mahon's _History of England_, vol. iv., p. 203.] [Footnote 133: Entick's _Hist._, vol. iii., p. 258; Mante's _Hist. of the War_, p. 151.]