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Friday 17. December
This day were our troops in this quarter mustered and counted and our horse was found to be somewhat less than 200, the which is no surprise with the number I know the which have run away, been slain, are unhorsed or have fallen sick especially since this pestilence hath come to the camp and Lord how proud we did look when we were come to France but now many scarce have hats for their heads, but I thank God for my continued good health and that he has chosen to preserve me when many a better man than I has been slain and also that I have decent quarters and clothes enough to keep me from nakedness even if my boots are in sore need of repair and one of my pistols will not hold a span.
Coningsby reports on the mustering of the horse today. Luke is in a rare philosophical mood and has every right to be thankful. He has been very lucky, he’s only been slightly wounded and he has managed to avoid getting typhus. Sieges may have been hard on the besieged but the besiegers didn’t have it much better. The lived in camps with very little hygiene, cramped quarters, slim rations, they very often had to be in trench systems filled with mud and fetid water and dodging bullets from the town.
Coningsby, Thomas, Jornall of Cheife Thinges Happened in Our Jorney from Deape the 13. of Auguste, Untyll, MS.- Harl. 288. f. 253279, p. 62-63. Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), published by Camden Society, 1847 Item notes: v.1 (1847)
This day were our troops in this quarter mustered and counted and our horse was found to be somewhat less than 200, the which is no surprise with the number I know the which have run away, been slain, are unhorsed or have fallen sick especially since this pestilence hath come to the camp and Lord how proud we did look when we were come to France but now many scarce have hats for their heads, but I thank God for my continued good health and that he has chosen to preserve me when many a better man than I has been slain and also that I have decent quarters and clothes enough to keep me from nakedness even if my boots are in sore need of repair and one of my pistols will not hold a span.
Coningsby reports on the mustering of the horse today. Luke is in a rare philosophical mood and has every right to be thankful. He has been very lucky, he’s only been slightly wounded and he has managed to avoid getting typhus. Sieges may have been hard on the besieged but the besiegers didn’t have it much better. The lived in camps with very little hygiene, cramped quarters, slim rations, they very often had to be in trench systems filled with mud and fetid water and dodging bullets from the town.
Coningsby, Thomas, Jornall of Cheife Thinges Happened in Our Jorney from Deape the 13. of Auguste, Untyll, MS.- Harl. 288. f. 253279, p. 62-63. Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), published by Camden Society, 1847 Item notes: v.1 (1847)