sentences:  Eventually the Rifles' commanding officer gave orders to discard knapsacks and keep either a greatcoat or blanket.Green remarks; ""We did not mind parting with our kits, orders must be obeyed, so we left them by the roadside, but we then still had to carry 50 rounds of ball cartridge, 30 loose balls in our waist belts, a priming flask and horn of powder, and a rifle and sword [bayonet], the two weighing 14 pounds.