The 95th were a rifle regiment, and had dark green coats instead of red.

It was strange to see them loading, for they would put the ball into a greasy rag and then hammer it down with a mallet, but they could fire both further and straighter than we.
All that part of Belgium was covered with British troops at that time; for the Guards were over near Enghien, and there were cavalry regiments on the further side of us.

You see, it was very necessary that Wellington should spread out all his force, for Boney was behind the screen of his fortresses, and of course we had no means of saying on what side he might pop out, except that he was pretty sure to come the way that we least expected him.

On the one side he might get between us and the sea, and so cut us off from England; and on the other he might shove in between the Prussians and ourselves.

But the Duke was as clever as he, for he had his horse and his light troops all round him, like a great spider's web, so that the moment a French foot stepped across the border he could close up all his men at the right place.
For myself, I was very happy at Ath, and I found the folk very kindly and homely.