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They say it was a shocking sight, / After the field was won; / For many thousand bodies here / Lay rotting in the sun; / But things like that you know must be / After a famous victory. / --Southey.
Never, perhaps, had the hopes of Waller's army been higher than on the morning of the 13th July as they encompassed the town of Devizes, the attack upon which had been fixed for that evening. Throughout the march from Bath they had been able to harass the rear of Hopton's army: they had intercepted a convoy of ammunition coming from Oxford; and though Prince Maurice's convoy had contrived to escape, they held Hopton and all his foot cooped up in Devizes with no match and very little powder.