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horse and dragoons, to join those that had been
sent off from the Duke's army. They pursued
with much alacrity, and having overtaken the rear
of the rebel army, had a few skirmishes in Lanca-
shire. Though the millitia of Cumberland and
Westmoreland were raised and armed, by the
Duke's order, to harass them in their march, and
though the bridges were broken down, the roads
damaged, and the beacons lighted to alarm the
country, they retreated very regularly with their
small train of Artillery. On the 19th of the
month the highland army reaehed Carlisle, where
the majority of the English in it were left at their
own desire, after which Charles reinforced the ga-
rison of the place, and crossed the rivers Eden
and Solway into Scotland ; having thus accom-
plished one of the most surprising retreats, per-
haps ever performed. They comitted no violence
nor outrage, and they were effeetually restrained
from the exercise of rapine. Though the weath
er was excessively cold, and though they must
have been exposed to much hunger and fatigue,
they left no sick, and lost only a few stragglers,
but retired in good order, carrying off their ean-
non in the faee of the enemy. The Duke of
Cumberland invested Carlisle with his whole ar-
my, on the 21st day of December; and on the
30th, the whole garrison surrendered by a kind
