The British Assault on the Village of Blenheim.
(From the picture by Allan Stewart, specially painted for this book.)
Brigadier Rose led the British infantry to the assault under a shower of grape and musketry, and ordered them not to fire a shot until he struck his sword against the palisades. While the flower of the French troops were thus “held up” in the village, Marlborough broke the center with the allied cavalry.
Chapter XVI.
BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE.
“Come weal, come woe, we’ll gather and go,
And live and die for Charlie.”