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Ensign Charles Egginton

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already gained, or, relinquishing the whole, to embark with his gallant army for England.

It was not without extreme regret that his Royal Highness was compelled to admit the necessity of this latter consideration, but, the enemy continuing daily to receive reinforcements, and even menacing his communication with the fleet, it, became at length necessary to adopt this course, which had the entire sanction of his veteran co-adjutor Sir Ralph Abercrombie.

The necessary preparations being made, the Duke of York withdrew the main body of his army from Alkmaer, and fell back upon the heights of Shakerboorg. This position proving untenable, and exposed to the incessant attacks of the enemy, who, however, paid dearly for his temerity, a further retreat was determined upon, and the left of the army accordingly retired upon Cohorn.

While covering the retreat with his brigade of infantry, his Highness Prince William of Gloucester gave proofs of that heroic intrepidity, and fearless contempt of death, the characteristic of his august family, and, although exposed to imminent danger, his horse being killed under him, continued to animate his troops by the greatest personal exertions.

The Duke of York, desirous of obtaining the sanction of government to a measure, which the formidable obstacles already mentioned, and the increasing numbers of the enemy, rendered every day more necessary, namely, the evacuation of the country, sent Colonel, now General Brownrigg, who was employed as Secretary to his Royal Highness, to England, and his representations produced the immediate recal of the troops.

It is impossible to dismiss this part of the subject without an observation, coinciding with the general sense of the nation respecting the expedition, which had to struggle with more disadvantages than any that had ever previously left the shores of Britain. Well aware of the obstacles he had to encounter, and the many difficulties which were opposed to the success of the expedition, yet his Royal Highness shrunk not from the task imposed upon him, and the example of his chearfulness and self-denial in the midst of numerous privations, diffused a most salutary spirit throughout the whole army. It was universally allowed, that, to obtain the whole of the proposed object, his Royal Highness should have been enabled to land in the month of June, when the climate might have proved more congenial