Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1861-05-16

WIZ N'dhu oF lie ny you IN lFltnusnlp.
As they were speaking these words tn,
young Earl Of Essex general of the horse ,criec
10 his handful of troopers
Follow me, good fellows, for the honor o
England and of Englands Queen"
As he he spoke be dashed, lance in rest, up
on the enemy's cavalry, overthrow the fore
most man. horse and rider, Shvering his owr
spear TO splinters, aud then, swinging his cur
tel axe rode merriy forward. His whole lit
tie troop, compact as en- arrowhead, flew with
an irresistible shock against the opposing col
umns pierced clear through them. and scatter.
ed them 10 all directions. At the very first
charge one hundred EngliShmen drove the
| Spanish and Albanian cavalry back upon the
muSketeerS and pike men, Wheeling with ra-
! pidlty, they retired before a Yoey or muSket
shot Ivy which many horses were killed, and
then formed again to renew the attack. Sir
| Phillip Sidney, on coming to the field, having
me: Sir William Pelham, the veteran Lord
! Marshal, lightly armed had with chiyalrous ez.
! trav0gance thrown off his own cuisines, and now
! rode to the battle with no armor but his cu;-
rass At the second charge his horse was
| shot under him, but mounting another, he was
seen everywhere in The thickest OF the fight,
I behaving himself with q galantry which eX-
/ torted edmi!ation even from the enemy.
For the battle was series OF personal en-,
| counters in which high officers were doing the
work OF private soldiers Lord North. who
had been lying bed rid with q musket shot
in the leg, had got himself put on horseback,
and with one boot on and Que boot or" bore
himself tnoSt hastily" through the whole af
fair " | desire that Her Majesty may know"
he said " that live but to save her. a bet
ter baCoHy than ! have could not hire the Lord
North 20 live on meauer terms" Sir William
Russell laid about hin with his curtcl axe to
/ such purpose that the Spauiurds pronounced
him devil and not man.
Wherever said an eye witness" "he saw
five or six Of the enemy together, thither wou'd
he, and with his hard knocks soon separate
their friendship"
Lord NIi.Oughhv encountered George Gre
scia, General of the famed Albanian cavalry
uuhorsed him at the first shock and rolled hm
into the ditch
" yield me thy prisoner" called ont the
Fprate in French, Z" for thou art Drsur cicu
alter." while WIiIoughby trusting 10 his cap
lives word CaiIopcd onward, and with him the
rest OF the htte trouP till they seemed swal-
lowed mp by the superior numbers Of The enc
my. HIS horse was shot under him, his bas,
sen were torn from his legs, ne was nearly ta-
ken prisoner, Int fought his way back with in,
credible strength and good fortune. Sir vii
liam StauIcy'S horse had seven bullets in him,
hut bore his rider uuhnrt 10 the end Of the
battle. Leicester declared Sir William and
old Read" to nc worth their weight in pearl
| Uaniba' Gonzaga, leader Of the Spanish
cavalry, fell mortally rounded The Margins
! del Nesto, commander of the expedition near
! ly met The same fate. An Englishman was
! just ceaving his head with a battIe-aXe, when
IA Spaniard trausfxed the other soldier with
| his pike The most obstinate struggle took
pla about the train Of wagons The team
sterS had fled in the beginning of the action,
bat the English and Spanish soldiers struc-
gIed wtti the horses, and pulling them forward
aad backward, tried in vain to get exclusive
possession Of the convoy which was the cause
Of the action.
The carts at last forced their way slowly
nearer aud nearer to the town. while the com
bat still went on, warm as ever, between the
hostile squadrons The action lasted an hour
and a half, aud again and again the Spanish
horsemeu wavered and broke before the hand
ful of English. aud fell back upon their mus
ketecrs Sir Phillip Sidney. in the last charge,
rode quite through the enemy'S ranks till he
came back upon their entertainments when
mn, ket ball from the camp struck him upon
the thigh. three INCHES above the knee. AL
though desperately wounded in part that
should have been protected hy the cuisines
which he had thrown aside, he was not inclin-
ed to leave the field; but his own horse had
been shot under him at the beginning of the
action. and the one upon whom he was now
mounted became too reStve for him, thus Grip
pied. to control
He turned reluctantly away and rode mile
and half back to the entertainments suffer
ing extreme pain, for his leg was d;eadfuIIy
shattered. AS he passed along the edge Of
the battlefield his attendants brought him a
hottie of water to quench his raging thirst. !
At that moment a wounded English soldier |
looked wStfnlly in his face when Sidney in, /
stantly handed him the flask, excamng, d" thy |
necessity is even greater than mine"
He then pledged his dying comrade in
draught, and was soon afterwards met by his |
uncle. Cob! Phillip" cried Leicester, in de-
spair, am truly grieved to see thee in this |
plight" But Sidney confronted him with |
manful words, and assured him that death was
sweet in the cause of his Queen and country !
Sir William Russel, too. all blood-stained from
the fight, threw his arms around his friend |
wept like q child, and kissing his hand, ex
claimed:
"Oh! noble Sir Phillip, never did man at,
tain hurt SO honorably, or serve so valianty US
vou"
Sir William Pelham declared "that Sid |
neys noble courage in the face of our enemies !
had won him name of continuing honor"
Ra- A man remarked that he experienced |
much JOY the first year Of his marriage, but the