His men dispers’d, and few to face.

The foes assault, upon the hill

He rallied them near to the mill.

They fir’d full brisk on every side;

Yet Gordon’s force was hard to bide,

They being to arms bred in France,

Knew how to retreat, and to advance.

MacLeod’s men, in number few,

Quite raw and undisciplin’d too,

Lost nearly twenty upon the spot,