Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-24

General Sir John Moore was wounded at
the same time, and was carried from the
neld ny two Gordons. When he w
ca ne asked for the names of the two
brave soldiers and offered a reward Of
5zO to each of them. 1t was a large sum
OF money for a private soldier, but al
though the order was read to the regi-
ment at parade no man stepped out of the
ranks TO claim the reward. Some years
later when Moore was knighted and as
sumed a coat Of arms he selected a Cor
don Highlander for one of his supporters,
IN gratitude" he said, "to and comment
Grafton of two soldiers of the 92d who
raised me from the ground when 1 was
lying on my face wounded and stunned"
Inc Gordons We're sent to Egypt and
earned laurels for bravery, but their colo
mel, t1rskine, of Cardross, was killed. The
regiment returned to England and
was the chief object of interest at the
great demonstration in London when
Nelson was laid to rest in st. Paul's.
When England undertook to purge Spain
OF the French the Gordon Highlanders
We're sent to the front, but before the
campaign closed the commanding officer,
Colonel Napier, was killed. The regi-
mental historian says: ''Their pipes were
IlsntinS when the colonel fell, and when
the British fleet of transports sailed away
from Corunna with the victorious SOL
SAS pipes PIdy0u, I1Cy,
Johnnie Cope to the disgust of the
Ere nch pursuers."
10 me regiment vas next ordered to Por-
tpgal with Wellington, and there gained
new and lasting laurels on many bloody
fields. AT Maya they were tOld to hold
q position against five times their num-
Der n fought for ten hours against the
fearful odds until their ammunition was
exhausted, and then, despite the orders
OF Aud Grog Willie" as they called
Slr william Stuart. not to charge, they
hurled themselves against the French
with, the bayonet. When they went into
the charge they We're 500 strong, but less
half that number lived to tell the
story.
$50 dreadful said Napier in his &C.
count of the battle. was the slaughter
that the assault of the enemy was &C
tually stopped by the heaped up masses
OF dead and dying. The stern valor Of
the N;nety-second would have Eraced
Thernnopylae.'
The Highlanders were brigaded with
the Royal Scots and the Black Watch
when Wellington engaged Marshal Ney
at Quatrc Bras. Wellington himself
gave the order. "Ninety-second. prepare
to charge and he saw the regiment rise
from II trench where they had taken
shelter as one man and with lowered
bayonets rush through the smoke and
put the French to flight. In this battle
they lost their commander, Colonel Cam
eron. The shot that killed him came
from a farmhouse held by the French.
Within five minutes of the time when
Cameron fell every occupant of the house
had been ~bayoneted.
Two days later, at Waterloo, under
the command of Major Donald MacDon-
aid. they fought again. and there is prob
ably no incident in the annals of English
warfare more stirring than the one in
Which the GOrdOns and the Scots Greys
took equal part on that memorable day.
The Gordon Highlanders seized hold Of
The stiirups of the Greys and dashed
the slope with them in one COM
charge of Scotland's finest horse
and foot against the flower or the French
army.
4 Then came the 40 years of peace, and
the Crirnean war broke out the
stationed at Gibraltar. 1t
saW little service in that campaign, and
SO much as some of the other regi-
nlents in the indian mutiny, but it did
much service in the Afghan campaign
and won new glory at the battle of Can
dRhar. On the way home the regiment
DETECTED to South Africa. and took
part in the war against the Beers in 1881.
and encountered the first severe reverse
Majuba hill. Shortly after this cam
paign the regiment was reOrganized with
the SeVenty-fifth. n it's present cOmpo-
sition is: First battalion, Seventy-ffth
foot; second battalion, Ninety-secand
foot: Third battalion. Royal Aberdeen
shire. Aberdeen is the regimental depot,