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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt:... CHAPTER XXII. 'A FIELD OF THE DEAD RUSHES RED ON MY SIGHT.' HE small force at Cappel had meanwhile passed a night of much anxiety and many alarms. With the first grey light of dawn they hastened to take up their position, and found it no easy matter so to post themselves, as to have some vantage-ground to aid them in resisting the enemy's attack, until the reinforcements which they expected from Zurich should arrive. In their perplexity, they made choice of a small hill lying north of the monastery, towards Zurich. Its surface was rough and uneven, and a deep ditch which surrounded it on three sides covered the approaches to it. Unfortunately, however, on the Zurich side, the only access to it was by a small bridge, which, in the event of defeat, rendered a hasty retreat full of danger, indeed well-nigh impossible. The soldiers, not adverting to this, saw only the advantages, not the disadvantages, of the Granges, as this small eminence was called, and loudly demanded to be led to it. This was done; the artillery were stationed neat some ruins, sentinels were placed at the foot of the hill, and the small force was drawn up in battle array, facing the monastery and the direction in which Zug lay. Meanwhile, in the distance they could hear the beating of the drums at Zug and Baar, and rightly conjectured that the enemy was getting under arms. The feeling that pervaded the Roman Catholic ranks was very different from the despondency that characterized the men of Zurich. They were filled with confidence and joy; their priests had told them that God was on their side, and they did not doubt it. Before they marched, they repaired in a body to the Cathedral of St. Oswald. There mass was celebrated; and when this religious rite was concluded,..