THE MAIN FIGHT. 211 of those loose pieces of rock which there strewed chap. the ground. By some of our officers this Homeric resource ^d^"^"^^- was regarded as ' unsold ierly,' and it seems that their disgust at the sight of such child's play served to hasten the resolve which was presently formed. The general result of the movements just effected did not make itself instantly plain to the bulk of our troops ; but as soon as they came to know that they had abandoned the sub- ject of a long-sustained contest, they chafed at the thought of having thus yielded, and their anger rose high when they saw the ' muffin-cap ' soldiery flooding into the work and heard their triumphaiit hurrahs. The Grenadiers were more especially raging, because they imagined, though wrongly, that theirs was the battalion which had last held the Battery. All at once, men who chanced to look southward saw a new line of Bearskins fast cropping up over the brnshwood. In a moment, many knew that the Coldstream The -n p , • 1 J / 1 n Coldstream was near, lar trom resting content (as less iiery approaching troops might have done) to await the support thus approaching, the Grenadiers were seized with desire to recapture the work before the Coldstream could come up. Colonel Henry charge Percy, observing that the enemy's masses were Grenadiers, writhing under the fire they had met, ran for- ward in front of his men, as also did Colonel Charles Lindsay ; and, the right flank company under Captain Burnaby breaking out to the front with a cry of ' Charge again, Grenadiers ! ' the
