This,  to  be  sure,  was  a  most  extraordinary  exploit.  I  will not,  however,  take  the  whole  merit  to  myself ;  my  inventive genius  started  the  idea  in  the  first  instance,  but  chance  assisted me  a  little,  for  I  afterwards  found  that  the  man  who  charged our   forty-eight    pounder   had    put   in,   by    mistake,   a  double quantity  of  powder,  else  we  could  never  have  succeeded  so  much beyond  all  expectation — especially  in  repelling  the  enemy's  ball.

- Chapter 12