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1758-September.
HISTORICAL   JOURNAL.
*' tinue. A Field-OfEcer to attend early to-morrow morning at " the landing of the artillery, provifions, &c. to affift, with the " Captain of the man of war, in bringing the things on fhore, and " preventing any confufion. A Captain, two Subalterns, and fixty " men, to parade by the rear of the 22d regiment, at fix o'clock, " to relieve the guard at the landing-place -, the Captain will re-" ceive his orders from the Field-Officer at that place."
(After orders, feven o'clock.)
" The Major of the picquets of this night to march with the " fame number as Major Clephane did lafl night, to efcort one " hundred and fifty pioneers (who will be affembled at the head of " the Royal at retreat-beating) to the hill by the water-fide, " half a mile in the front of the Royal, where Major M'Kellar " will dired the work ; the Major will remain with his picquets, " and cover the workmen till it is finifhed; he will then leave " a Captain, Lieutenant, and Enfign, with non-commiffioned " Officers in proportion, and fifty men in the redoubt, with orders " to defend the fame againfl any number of the enemy that may " advance, till he is relieved j and will efcort the pioneers back to " the camp, who are immediately to deliver in their tools to the " Artillery. Each regiment to fend to the Artillery, at five o'clock " to-morrow morning, for twenty pickaxes and ten fhovels, *to " make a communication along the line, as mail be diredled by the " Quarter-Mafter-General, or his ArMant. A Subaltern to be " fent by Webb's, and one by Lawrence's, to overfee the one hun-" dred and fifty pioneers; Whitmore's and Otway's give the Cap-" tains for the two brigade picquets. One hundred and fifty p10" " neers from the right brigade ; a Serjeant and thirty men from *' each regiment, a Subaltern from the 48th, and one from the 3d " battalion of the 60th, to overfee the pioneers."
June