KAFFRARIA: TO ILLUSTRATE THE 72nd, 74th, AND 91st REGIMENTS.
FOOTNOTES:
[422] From the Dutch Service.
[423] From the Austrian service.
[424] “Journal of Lieutenant Ronald Campbell, of the Grenadier Company, 72nd Regiment,” 2 vols. folio, MS.
[425] Lieutenant Campbell’s Journal.
[426] On the 12th of August, as the grenadiers and Captain Gordon’s company of the 72nd were on duty in the trenches, exposed to a burning sun, and a severe cannonade from the fortress, Colonel Campbell, field officer of the trenches, sent his orderly to Lieutenant Campbell of the grenadiers requesting that the piper of the grenadiers might be directed to play some pibrachs. This was considered a strange request to be made at so unsuitable a time; it was, however, immediately complied with; “but we were a good deal surprised to perceive that the moment the piper began, the fire from the enemy slackened, and soon after almost entirely ceased. The French all got upon the works, and seemed more astonished at hearing the bagpipe, than we with Colonel Campbell’s request.”—Lieutenant Campbell’s Journal.
[427] Stewart’s Sketches, ii. pp. 137-8.
[428] An account of the part taken by the Highland brigade in further operations at the Cape will be found under the 93rd regiment.
[429] “The soldiers suffered excessively from the heat of the sun, which was as intense as I ever felt it in India; though our fatigue was extreme, yet, for the momentary halt we made, the grenadier company (72nd) requested the pipers might play them their regimental quick step, Cabar Feidh, to which they danced a Highland reel, to the utter astonishment of the 59th regiment, which was close in our rear.”—Journal of Captain Campbell, Grenadier Company, 72nd regiment.