That for the time being concluded the operations of the Highland regiments on the Continent, for in October 1795 the Government decided to launch an attack directed against the ascendancy of the French Republic in the West Indies.
CHAPTER IX
WITH ABERCROMBY IN EGYPT
(1801)
Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to my Jean,
Where heart-some wi’ her I ha’e mony a day been;
For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no more,
We’ll maybe return to Lochaber no more.
Those tears that I shed they are all for my dear;
And no for the dangers attending on weir;
Tho’ borne on rough seas to a far distant shore,