The troops could
hardly be prevailed upon to retire, and it was not till the order had
been given for the third time that the Highlanders withdrew from the
hopeless encounter. The loss sustained by the regiment was as
follows: eight officers, nine sergeants and 297 men killed; seventeen
officers, ten sergeants and 306 men wounded.
Inverawe, after having fought with the greatest courage, received at
length his death wound. Colonel Grant hastened to the dying man's
side, who looked reproachfully at him, and said: "You deceived me;
this is Ticonderoga, for I have seen him". Inverawe never spoke
again. Inverawe's son, an officer in the same regiment, also lost his
life at Ticonderoga.
On the very day that these events were happening in far-away America,
two ladies, Miss Campbell of Ederein and her sister, were walking from
Kilmalieu to Inveraray, and had reached the then new bridge over the
Aray. One of them happened to look up at the sky. She gave a call to
her sister to look also. They both of them saw in the sky what looked
like a siege going on. They saw the different regiments with their
colours, and recognised many of their friends among the Highlanders.
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