ABSTRACT
As the dead horse subsided between Moore's knees, his wounded leg took his weight and he realised that it was stiff and painful. For several hours he had commanded the storm-point of the battle with furious energy and courage. His second-in-command General Oakes had been hit at about the same moment and in the same part of the leg; and he too had remained in action. To retire from the battle while they could still manage a horse would have been unthinkable: 'we had both been able to continue to do our duty'.
