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| Topic Started: 30 Jun 2008, 04:14 AM (82 Views) | |
| Benjamin Wingfield | 30 Jun 2008, 04:14 AM Post #1 |
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OOC - Wrapping up this loose end. This thread begins on 30 June and runs roughly until 3 July, when the regiment will arrive in Port Royal. IC - The two dragoons were dangerously close to falling from their saddles. They had ridden almost without stopping for two days, the knowledge of what was happening in Port Royal keeping them moving. It was only the brief, increasingly constant halts for rest or water that allowed their exhausted horses any chances to regain even a little wind. A journey that normally took two days had passed in almost half a day less, but at the expense of the horses and their riders. The sight of Kingston over the last rise in the road had drawn weary, short-lived cheers from the two men's throats. It was purely by memory that the pair found their way to the regiment's encampment. Not that it would have been especially hard to locate the large, walled compound. The gate sentries gaped in surprise at the dusty, exhausted dragoons and it was not until one of them nearly fell from his saddle that the sentries made any move to assist them. The two riders were taken directly to the surgeon's tent and the regiment's chief officer sent for directly, once the packets the dragoons had been carrying were discovered. While the two dragoons were being fussed over by the regimental surgeon, the letters they had carried were being opened, read, and disseminated by Edrington and his staff. The news was obviously not good, for within minutes his lordship was riding at a gallop for the harbour, where the Navy had installed its offices. It did not please him that there was a great deal of activity on the docks and all of it conducted by blue-jacketed sailors. The bustle suggested that Admiral Heyworth had already learned of the disaster in Port Royal and fully intended to take action without consulting him. The nerve. With his temper already up, the meeting with Heyworth did not go notably well. In fact, it ended with Edrington showing himself out with the loud declaration that the Twenty-Ninth would do just fine without the Navy's assistance and would go to relieve their beleaugered company at once. Toward that goal, Edrington had already begun preparations and scarcely two hours after his return from Heyworth's office, the regiment had struck its tents, gathered its equipment, and was forming up for the long march to Port Royal. |
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| Benjamin Wingfield | 8 Jul 2008, 11:56 AM Post #2 |
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3 July 1751 The men were close to their limit of endurance. Edrington had kept them marching at a brisk pace from the moment they'd left Kingston, which brought them to the outskirts of Port Royal within a day and a half. They had arrived but there was more work to be done before the regiment could rest. The sun was close to its zenith when the Twenty-Ninth came to a halt just outside the town and began breaking down into companies. Barely an hour was gone before the companies, now divided into skirmish parties, moved into the streets. Edrington was with the first party, such was his temper and, though he would not openly admit it, his concern for the one company he had left in the town months before. As the Twenty-Ninth increased the rough arc of occupation it was creating, Edrington guided his skirmishers toward the place he remembered the liaison company's encampment to be. Every possible scenario was playing in the back of his mind, each one ending in the discovery of a burnt-out ruin and dead soldiers everywhere on the ground. What he discovered instead was completely the opposite. The two gate sentries challenged the approaching party, quite appropriately, and did not let the group pass until proper identifications were made. Relieved that his regiment was intact as a whole, Edrington entered the camp and the company's captain was sent for directly. So it was that the Twenty-Ninth Regiment of Foot returned to Port Royal. |
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