'Twas in the year of 1874, and on New Year's Day,
The British Army landed at Elmina without dismay,
And numbering in all, 1400 bayonets strong,
And all along the Cape Coast they fearlessly marched along,
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And many of the Black Watch fell wounded and dead, And Major Macpherson was wounded, but he rallied his men without dread.