THE " DIE HARDS."

Evening Post, Volume XLIV, Issue 46, 23 August 1892, Page 3

THE " DIE HARDS."

TO THE EDITOR. SiX— Your correspondent, "Taffoy," in last night's issuo of your paper, affords ns -another mstanco of how fond somo poople are of rushing into print ovor matters they know nothing about. C'onld tho sweetnamed being not see at tho foot of the • oxtraots that they were taken from " British Battles on Land and Sea." I read them in the Otago Witness a fow weeks back, so it is quite evident that no "Die Hard " had anything to do with it. Mind, sir, after reading it I was rather surprised at the heading. I did not happen to bo present at the over memorable ovont, bnt I can perhaps afford ''Taffey" a little information which, from his silly production, he knows nothing about. Out of about 1400 men the " Die Hards " had 1050 placod hort de combat, and tbo missing standard did not belong to them, for to save it Colonel Inplis took it off its pole and concealed it in his breast, and his son, the present General Inglis, still possesses tho colour. Thon, again, seeing that there is a monument erected on the spot to the momory of tho "Din Hards," it is pretty plain proof that thoy had a big aay in what took place on that day, 16th Muy, 1811. I am, &c, An ex-" Dik Hard.'"