"
"You had done your share and more," the king said, "and I thank
you both heartily for it, and promote you, Graheme, at once to the
rank of captain, and will request Colonel Munro to give you the
first company which may fall vacant in his regiment. If a vacancy
should not occur shortly I will place you in another regiment
until one may happen in your own corps. To you, sergeant, I give
a commission as officer. You will take that rank at once, and will
be a supernumerary in your regiment till a vacancy occurs. Such
promotion has been well and worthily won by you both."
Without delay an advance was ordered against Oppenheim. It lay on
the Imperialist side of the Rhine. Behind the town stood a strong
and well fortified castle upon a lofty eminence. Its guns swept not
only the country around it, but the ground upon the opposite side
of the river. There, facing it, stood a strong fort surrounded by
double ditches, which were deep and broad and full of water. They
were crossed only by a drawbridge on the side facing the river,
and the garrison could therefore obtain by boats supplies or
reinforcements as needed from the town.
The Green and Blue Brigades at once commenced opening trenches
against this fort, and would have assaulted the place without delay
had not a number of boats been brought over by a Protestant well
wisher of the Swedes from the other side of the river.
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