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| Continued | to encounter the left wing of the Scots under | |||||
| Huntly and Home. | ||||||
| The Scottish army at this moment consisted | ||||||
| of 5 Battalions each numbering between | ||||||
| 4 & 5 thousand men. 4 of these divisions | ||||||
| occupied the whole front of Branxton Hill, looking towards the | ||||||
| North, and ranging in lines from West to East, with the artillery | ||||||
| placed both before each body of men & in the open spaces between | ||||||
| them. the 5th was placed behind the King on his right, and leaned | ||||||
| towards the rear of that on the |
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| When the conflict began, the position of the King’s Army was | ||||||
| admirable, for he had the advantage of causing his enemy | ||||||
| to fight him on ground of his own selection, but seeing | ||||||
| the desperate struggle there was yet undecided and | ||||||
| obeying the impulse of his own sanguine temperamen[t] | ||||||
| he dismounted from his horse, & commanding th[e] | ||||||
| W. Beatty CA | ||||||
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