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made us leave carrying the sick
The troops entered, and made us leave, carrying the sick and wounded to an [Pg 221] upper room.
— from Saragossa: A Story of Spanish Valor by Benito Pérez Galdós

Mackenzies under Lord Cromarty the second
Lord George pointed out at the counsel that a further reason for delay lay in the fact that the Mackenzies under Lord Cromarty, the second battalion of the Frasers under the Master of Lovat, the Macphersons under Cluny, the Macgregors under Glengyle, Mackinnon’s followers, and the Glengary Macdonald’s under Barisdale were all on the march to join us and would arrive in the course of a day or two.
— from A Daughter of Raasay: A Tale of the '45 by William MacLeod Raine


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