The men answered that the horses should not be shot, that they wanted no pledge from their brave Colonel except his word, and that they would run the last hazard with him.

They kept their promise well.

The Puritan blood was now thoroughly up; and what that blood was when it was up had been proved on many fields of battle.
That night the regiment passed under arms.

On the morning of the following day, the twenty-first of August, all the hills round Dunkeld were alive with bonnets and plaids.

Cannon's army was much larger than that which Dundee had commanded.