Next day the brigade remained at Hal in the morning, but about mid-day came an orderly from the Duke, and we pushed on once more until we came to a little village called Braine something, and there we stopped; and time too, for a sudden thunderstorm broke over us, and a plump of rain that turned all the roads and the fields into bog and mire.
Le lendemain, la brigade resta à Hal, tout le matin, mais vers midi, un ordonnance arriva de la part du Duc, et nous avançâmes jusqu'à un petit village appelé Braine le... je ne sais plus quoi. Il n'était que temps, car un orage terrible fondit tout à coup sur nous, déversant des torrents d'eau qui changèrent tous les champs et tous les chemins en marais et bourbiers.